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Retired:
Karsten Schmidt's "Generative 3D printed voxel diatoms" (2010)

#Nature #Biology #Diatoms #Generative #Art #3DPrint #Subdivision #Mesh #Voxel #Toxiclibs

Two 3D printed diatom-inspired filigree sphere-like objects, created via a recursive subdivision mesh (with displacements) of a seed cube. One of the objects is white, the other black.

Close-up of two 3D printed diatom-inspired filigree sphere-like objects, created via a recursive subdivision mesh (with displacements) of a seed cube. One of the objects is white, the other black.

Macro view of two 3D printed diatom-inspired filigree sphere-like objects, created via a recursive subdivision mesh (with displacements) of a seed cube. One of the objects is white, the other black.

Macro view of a black 3D printed diatom-inspired filigree sphere-like object, created via a recursive subdivision mesh (with displacements) of a seed cube.

Test "tornado" rotation of particles in the surface of a sphere

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/b5cc5963-eb66-44b0-beb7-3665549a4f27

Been getting several DMs about the #GenerativeArt banner image in my profile. It's an old render (from 2010) of a recursive #Voronoi projected into a #Quadtree. This video shows the interplay of 2 conceptual hierarchies:

1) Verlet particles with attractive/repulsive force fields are spawned in a squared 2d space and negotiate their positions over time. These positions are also used as sites for creating a dynamic Voronoi diagram to define cell structures around each particle. Each resulting Voronoi region can then become the physical (and constantly changing) bounds for the next level of recursion, spawning more particles to subdivide it into smaller regions. Each cell at each level is using its own Voronoi instance with sub-regions clipped to their respective parent region. The process becomes more and more local... The setup in the video has a maximum tree depth of 3.

2) A quadtree is used to visualize the hierarchy of cells from phase 1 and its depth structure represented as extruded 3D model (in isometric perspective). For this video the quadtree has a depth of 10 levels with the maximum level of recursion tracing/coinciding with the Voronoi cell edges. The elevation of cell walls depends on the depth of the cell in the original tree, with the cells at deepest level resulting in the tallest structures. Furthermore, the elevation is modulated by the distance of each point to the nearest vertex of its parent cell polygon/region...

#Toxiclibs #Sunflow #GenerativeDesign #Architecture

@toxi 😍

hey I can actually share some old #toxiclibs experiments, too (would call it my first honest "sketch" from a university course called "Kunst & Neue Medien", greetings to Markus Lohoff 👋, somewhat around 2012). It was a simple geometric system to create jellyfish-like creates, reacting to music. All of the students results were shown in a bunker at b-05 in #montabaur. We even stayed overnight in sleeping backs in the bunker 🤩 😴 (feeling super nostalgic now)

Hat tip to @guidoschmidt's ongoing & exciting 2D mobilé experiments, here's a screen recording of my Happy New Year's 2010 interactive toy...

#VerletPhysics #Typography #Toxiclibs #ProcessingOrg

Watching a
@thecodingtrain
video series on Verlet physics. It uses #toxiclibs, but the video is 7 years, and the GH insights show very little activity on the lib. Have people moved on to other alternatives (JS preferably)?

Started today 12 years ago: Commissioned by Victoria & Albert Museum London: Victorian-esque ornamental laser-cut 2-panel room dividers (2.20 meters tall), covered in 620 hand folded paper cones, acting as projection mapping surface for animated patterns... Design, preparation, layout and export of all fabrication files entirely done using my #Toxiclibs & #Flatworld libraries (Dec 2010 - Jun 2011)

Making-of video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b1C2xLWB-w

#GenerativeArt #DigitalFabrication #PaperCraft #InteractiveInstallation

(Ps. ❤️ to my fam & @sermad for help with installing the cones...)

Front-view photo of one of the fully assembled (but unprojected) room divider panels, entirely covered in 300+ hand folded paper cones (base polygons of 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 vertices)

Working on my talk in a Milan hotel, sifting through previous work incl. these hi-res renders of high energy deformations created w/ #toxiclibs & #Sunflow for Today's Art festival, The Hague, 2008

RT @toxi@twitter.com

@sableRaph@twitter.com @fx_hash_@twitter.com Minus the collectible parts: Exhibit A
(2009, #generative #typography via Diffusion-limited Aggregation & #toxiclibs for @universalevery@twitter.com's eponymous show @ Sheffield Institute of Art)
🤝
Ps. It's a pretty good & "old" analogy freq. used to explain generative design to laypersons

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/toxi/status/1553655362783428608