And we like to draw these tiles as little squares.

So, these tiles would make a complicated, self assembling checkerboard.

We're going to turn to another technology, called algorithmic self assembly of tiles.

All right? Whereas on the right, the two tiles look nearly the same.

Here is a DNA origami rectangle, and here are some tiles growing from it.

Clay City is a village in Clay County, Illinois, United States.

That is your perceptual reality. The physical reality is that those two tiles are the same.

He created man ( Adam ) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery .

He created man ( Adam ) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery .

So if you affix some wires and switches to those tiles rather than to the staple strands, you affix them to the tiles then they'll self assemble the somewhat complicated circuits, the demultiplexer circuits, that you need to address this memory.

Clay City is a town in Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana, United States.

We have two identical tiles, on the left, one in a dark surround, one in a light surround.

Gone, it seems, is the heyday of T shirts, toys, plastic flowers, tiles, hooks, springs, and the like.

Clay accepted the offer.

Notice that on the left the two tiles look nearly completely opposite one very white and one very dark.

Clay Center is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, Kansas, United States.

Clay is a town in and the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia, United States.

Here's the DNA origami, and what we can do is we can write 32 on both edges of the DNA origami, and we can now use our watering can and water with tiles, and we can start growing tiles off of that and create a square.

Her crossing the fragmented tiles, faltering at the step to the street, droning, not looking at me, Can you help me?

Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration

which pelted them with clay stones ?

which pelted them with clay stones ?

So, what we've done is we've succeeded in making something much bigger than a DNA origami by combining DNA origami with tiles.

Selections from the series are printed and pasted unto tiles, which are then tacked on to walls and buildings throughout San Juan.

to loose upon them stones of clay

hurling against them stones of baked clay

To unleash upon them rocks of clay .

Throwing at them rocks of baked clay .

pelting them with stones of baked clay ,

Striking them with stones of hard clay ,

Casting against them stones of baked clay ,

Striking them with stones of baked clay .

to loose upon them stones of clay

hurling against them stones of baked clay

To unleash upon them rocks of clay .

Throwing at them rocks of baked clay .

pelting them with stones of baked clay ,

Striking them with stones of hard clay ,

Casting against them stones of baked clay ,

Striking them with stones of baked clay .

It was started by Erik Winfree, and what it does, it has tiles that are a hundredth the size of a DNA origami.

And we put down those little floor tiles, and then I went onto eBay and bought 150 pounds of Lego which is insane.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'

And the point of this, if you didn't catch that, is that tiles are a kind of molecular program and they can output patterns.

So, you can come up with a set of tiles that when they come together, form a little binary counter rather than a checkerboard.