This assignment took different point clouds to generate voronoi and delauney diagrams. These diagrams were then given a local offset, relative to the size of the cell, to generate a changing thickness. Finally since the voronoi diagram and the delauney diagram are inversions of each other, diagrams made from the same point cloud can be [...]
For this assignment I decided to use paper as a textile, and nitinol wire as an actuator. Using origami techniques I created a pleated cylinder, that would compress and decompress as syncopated spurts of current were allowed to move through the different lengths of nitinol wire threaded through the structure.
I made paper lace using a Voronoi diagram generated with a polar rose and a 2D graph of a Lorenz Attractor. The polar rose is a the forms generated by the equation r= a*cos(theta*n/d) and results in the possible forms shown below (from Wikipedia). I chose this equation because it produces a large range of [...]
For my Laser Cut Lace project, I decided to laser cut a spiral and grid vornoi diagram into a leather belt . I first produced the spiral pattern using the Processing programming language. I modified some preexisting code so that I had multiple spirals and their size, shape and position varied. I produced the following [...]
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For this assignment, I used Grasshopper (plug-in for Rhino3D) circle packing script to generate different patterns for laser-cut lace. Instead of packing circles completely on a given surface, I decided to use multiple attractor points to define starting points of circle packing. Below image shows a screenshot of Grasshopper interface and also a 3D [...]
This week I make two projects and also did experiments with the voronoi code. all is here: 1.The code for making a beehive This is the basic code, from this code it is possible to create spiral, circular and other patterns: /*This example illustrates a simple method to generate a set of deliberately placed points [...]
This week I explored the creative process of creating voronois through code and materiality. I created several patterns through using the Fortune’s Algorithm, which essentially sweeps a line across a place of points and draws parabolas between the points. A parabola is equidistant from one of the points, and the place that the parabolas intersect [...]
This week our assignment was to: “Write a program, or modify an existing program, to create a two dimensional pattern and use a laser cutter to turn it into a sheet of lace. You are also welcome to then incorporate the lace into a larger design.” My main objective was to try to familiarize myself [...]
I made a tank top with laser cut iron-on lace. The same pattern, created computationally from a Voronoi diagram generator, was laser cut out of iron-on adhesive backed fabric three times in different sizes and ironed on the front of the shirt in different rotation positions.
A Bracelet Inspired by Lace = Lacelet. This week, I had the fortune of learning many new things, including how to use a lasercutter! It was awesome. As part of learning to use a lasercutter, I not only coded my first vornoid diagram (more details here -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram) but I also made my first bracelet using canvas fabric [...]