This is a snowboard company which specialized in giving the client exactly the board that they are looking for, the client has the option to buy a product from the stock or can choose from several different options which would make the bard more personalized. These options include adjusting the flex pattern, shape, tuning(edges), top sheet and base. There is even the option to send in your own graphics to be used. The website is very interactive and intuitive.

Custom Shapes

The Prior shop has been making custom “one off” snowboards since 1990. The layout and design of our factory has been built with this in mind. We can make a board to pretty much any shape and flex pattern you want. The following chart outlines prices for common revisions to existing templates:

Complete custom Shapes
If your dream board requires more than the revisions listed above please email info info@priorsnowboards.com with your ideas. Some discussion will be required to determine the best performance results. Ultimately the price will be determined by the complexity of the project.

Lead Times
4-8 weeks upon confirmed order.

Extra notes
Above surcharges are in addition to price of board.
Prices may change depending upon degree of difficulty.
length restrictions = 205cm
width restrictions = tip/tail 34cm, waist 28.5cm

Contact info@priorsnowboards.com for more info on the board of your dreams.

Custom Graphics

Prior has been offering custom graphics since 1990 and provides a complete custom topsheet and base graphic service. This is ideal for riders who want a one-of-a-kind look on their Prior board, and for companies who desire special corporate gifts and/or promotions.

Topsheet Artwork
Topsheet design and color options are virtually unlimited. All topsheets are sublimated onto PBT for a professional look and finish. Above prices based on receipt of art in digital file format in either of following formats:

1. For art that is done in vector based (ie. Illustrator or similar) program we require artwork in both .eps and .jpeg formats.
2. For bit mapped based art (ie. Photoshop or similar) we require .tif and .jpeg formats. The File size must be 200dpi in rectangular shape that measures 3cm longer than desired board length x 34cm wide. Note that .tif file size will be more than 100mb and .tif file must be sent on CD or DVD.

Base Artwork
Prior offers diecut custom bases in one to three colors. As base colors are actually cut with a knife there are some design limitations. We ask that you first email jpeg file to info@priorsnowboards.com for review and approval. Once finalized we require final file version in .eps format

Lead Times
3-4 weeks upon confirmed order and artwork (also depends on quantity).

Extra notes
Above surcharges are in addition to price of board.
Board length restrictions = 205cm
Board width restrictions = 34cm.

Contact info@priorsnowboards.com to send jpeg of your dream graphic or to request more info.

Phase Space: A graphical analysis of a system that depends on changing variables in which all stages of the variables can be seen. This is helpful for systems that change in stability and can be used to predict certain times in which the system has more or less stability and can be useful. Each parameter in the graph represents a different axis of the graph. For an example if the movement of gas on a molececular level was to be graphed each partical would require its own axis on the graph to represent its direction of movement.

This method of representation is often used in Classic Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics.

Classic examples of phase diagrams from chaos theory are the Lorenz attractor and Mandelbrot set.

Pseudo Random: When a system apears random but is in fact not random. This is the closest thing to a system that produces randomness that exists. There are many different methods of creating such systems both in computer programs and in reality such as the roulette wheel. There is no system to produce randomness because any factor that influences it essentially means that the system is not random.

This system is typically used in computer modeling to convey the appearence of randomness and tends to get quite close.

People who work in the feild of Cryptology  also use this method to create randomly generated codes that would be difficult to figure out.

This is the mathematic formula taken from Wikipiedia.

A distribution ensemble is pseudorandom if, for any circuit C of size , with as the uniform random distribution, then

is called pseudorandom if it is pseudorandom for all and . This definition of pseudorandomness is used primarily in the study of pseudorandom generators.

Currently  i use a bit of rhino/vb script to help me with certain functions that i would like to preform in rhino. This gives the possibility to add abilites to rhino as well as self processing and looping systems. This scripting language is mostly used for 3d graphics. I am recently finding that there are a couple of emerging languages as well most notably one called Processing which focuses more on 2d representations of partical systems, morphological shapes, group flow, ect… take a look, it seems a bit simpler than rhino(not really for 3d, more complex geometries) but extreamly interesting none the less.

P.S. The spell checker dosent work. Oh well.

Here is our dwg file for cutting, take a look.

We have made a 3d model of our project as well as included a new array of pictures.

Here is our new maps

Here are our pictures

My tree analysis presentation can be found here.

http://www.iaacblog.com/vikrantsharma/

These are the instructions to build an awesome tube. Team USA: Erik Thorson and Alex Haris

manual

Through the blogs that were recomended to our group(10) we followed the links to find subjects that were more interesing to us and more relavant to the feild of architecture. We decided on the idea of Chaos theory to follow and investigate the visual representations of this theory and its behavior. There were a couple of sites that e found to help us further investigate. Namely chaoscope.org.

The equations are shown here solely for the mathematical inclined (even though some equations may have their validity disputed) as there is no algebra skills involved in rendering attractors. The pictures displayed represent a typical “find” for each equation. This is going to soon be an open source piece of software available for outside development. The interface for the program dose not require any sort of advanced knoledge of mathimatics.

Chaotic Flow, a family of attractors which includes Lorenz and Lorenz-84, is a generalization of the equations described by Pr. Julien Sprott in his paper “Some Simple Chaotic Flows”. This is the only equation in Chaoscope where the position of the variables (x, y and z) is itself a parameter, Mi Op. This means that during a Search, not only the parameters are randomized, so is the equation.
22 parameters :	M0, M1… M11, M0 Op., M1 Op.… M10 Op and dT
equation :

Here is another example a possible use/equation and how the random aspects writen into the code with loosely based perameters demonstrate the behavior of chaos.

Described in Pr. Julien Sprott’s book under its scientific name, “three dimensional quadratic map”, it is the most complex equation found in Chaoscope. Given the number of parameters, and if you were to limit your choice to 20 values for each of them, it allows 2030 combinations, which means you would have virtually one chance out of 1,073,741,824,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to reproduce a strange attractor without knowing its original parameters. It would be like searching for a needle in a thirty dimensional stack of hay. You can set the order of the equation (from the 2nd to the 5th) when you create a project or later while a project is already open.
up to 168 parameters :	P0, P1… P167
equation :

Here are just a couple more cool examples

I did not understand that this space was to be some type of crit space. I now see. My camera was recently stolen from me so it will be difficult for me to post any type of physical work here on this blog. by the way how do we get into our email again. here is one picture of my intentions for the tube. I have to cut tomarrow, hopefully some of it at least will be done and ready to cut. Here are also some of our presentation for mapping relating to cultral associations and activity levels in the city at different times of the day.