Tectonic Patterns

Morphogenetic Interferences

nielsmartin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:21:50 +0000

In a 2 weeks workshop, the students learned programming from scratch, using ‘processing’. They were given scripts to start from. Modifying these, or developing their own programs, the students worked on a ‘morphogenetic interference’. Starting point is an ordered grid of regular elements that is interfered by an input, i.e. the mouse, another element or self organised ‘agents’. The students worked in groups, developing their own concepts and views on interference, potential inputs and graphical representations on the topic. The results become highly complex, unpredictable. Interesting effects that weren’t foreseen – emergent effects – were analysed and taken into account.

Book

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Morphogenetic Interferences by Claus Peder Pedersen, Niels Martin Larsen, Sebastian Gmelin | Make Your Own Book

Branching meshes

nielsmartin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:14:05 +0000

The experiment is an attempt to develop methods for creating meshes that have complex morphologies. In this case the idea is to generate consistent meshes that both branches and joins with each other becoming one big complex mesh. An image generating algorithm developed in Processing creates a row of sections. The sections are resolved into one big mesh through isosurfacing, which means that the images are interpreted as a sequence of intersections through consistent volumes, like scans of internal organs in a human body.

CNC model of self-organizing curves.

nielsmartin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:18:25 +0000

The cnc model shows the geometric consistency of the self-organizing curves algorithm. At the same time it reveals more architectonic potential related to light filtering and points towards subjects such as material, texture and scale.

Self-organizing curves

nielsmartin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:52:33 +0000

The latest development in attempts to implement simple self-organization in 3D models. The algorithm is performed in 2D and the pattern is transposed to 2 surfaces within the script. The surfaces are connected via lofted surfaces based on the curves generated by the initial algorithm.

introduction

nielsmartin — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:09:48 +0000

tectonic patterns is a forum for discussions on algorithmic design. The projects presented are part of my research at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark where I am working on the phd project “Tectonic patterns”. Ideas, questions, references and thoughts are welcome.