I’ve been working on these soap film simulations with the Center for Bits and Atoms. There’s more videos and information here.
SoaPy – tube from Ari Kardasis on Vimeo.
Aperiodic Tiling
Below is some work from my ongoing thesis : The Soft Grid, which is an investigation into the spatial organizations of architecture through the lens of gridding systems.
This video demonstrates the running of an algorithm that I’m developing which tiles the plane using parallelogram shaped units. In this case, there are ten different tiles generated from five vectors. You can see the program putting the tiles down in a blob shape and retracing its steps whenever there is a conflict resulting from tiles bumping into one another. The red concentric tree is a representation of the data structure that is being used and the blue meshwork is a designation of adjacency, which is a fundamental aspect of a gridding system.
I will be posting more on my thesis as it develops.
Point Crowd
Masoud Akbarzadeh and I have put together a website with a good deal of material for the upcoming release of RhinoScript in Python. Take a look : www.pointcrowd.com
Machinic Processes
BuzzBack
BuzzBack is a project I’ve been working on with the responsive environments group in MIT’s Media Lab.
The project will consist of about a dozen small buzzers, each equipped with a microphone and a speaker. Each one will autonomously listen to it’s environment through the microphone and, based on what it hears, it will sing back a tone through the speaker. The buzzers will hear each other and respond but will also be susceptible to environmental noise like subways or interested viewers.
I’ve been working on a simulation in Processing in parallel to the development of the hardware. You can check it out here. Unfortunately, the microphone doesn’t work in the web app but if your interested in singing to it, you can download the app here.
joint tectonics in place
A quick snapshot of how the projection project is progressing. This is four of the 10 pieces arranged in a such a way that I can start to think about how they’ll fit together.
I’ve been working on concrete form-work system that is driving me nuts. I’m actually batting around the idea of using colored concrete although, as per usual, I can’t be trusted with the color picking.
Those little black things between modules are steel plates that connect the units. Imagine that this thing is 8 feet tall.
QuarC Necklace
I have been working on this project for a while and I can finally reveal it.
This is an offshoot of a project I did a couple of years ago involving quasicrystals (qc) which was published in Pidgin Magazine issue 6. The piece originated as a 3D model :
The geometry of which was based on these earlier experiments with the qc. From there, I 3D printed the object to get a positive that I could make copies of:
This acted as a master from which I could get a silicone mold:
and then cast it into unfinished silver. The white residue is some combination of the plaster mold and a release agent:
This was then finished into the final pendant which came out with a shockingly shiny. After all, it is silver:
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the result although there is a lot that I would change if I had it to do over again. The fabrication process has been really fascinating and rewarding as someone who hasn’t dealt with casting metal before.
discrete / continuous
Searching for geometrical techniques for a project that I’m doing with Mishka Alexander called Extra-Long Island. This is, admittedly, a Voronoi diagram but in my defense, we’re making every effort to exercise control over the location of points and therefore the structure of the topology. More to come on this.
first images
I’m very excited. Finally, after a few months of grinding away at this java-based higher-dimensional projection system, I’ve got a few legitimate results to show off:
5 dimensions into 2:
I literally cropped these in MS Paint. Seriously.
6 dims into 2 (in perspective so it looks faster)
and finally 6 dims into 3. I promise better graphics soon.
Sunday night nonlinear dynamics
A few images from a project I’m working on modeling Atlantic tuna populations:
Gratuitous 3D representation of the anchovy, tuna and bluefish population under certain parameters.
The individual populations in time and vs each other.
A few long term behavior diagrams showing results of overfishing (if unclearly).
