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@superformulabot – an interactive Twitter bot for exploring and sharing interesting forms
February 3rd, 2018 – Continuing in my slight personal obsession with Johan Gielis’ superformula, I built out an autonomous Twitter bot that adds a bit of playfulness and conversational interactivity to the process of discovering new and interesting forms. @superformulabot will automagically generate a new drawing every couple hours or so using parameters based on the current timestamp. The […]
SuperformulaSVG – a vector-based 2D line-art generator for web
January 27th, 2018 – SuperformulaSVG is an interactive generative art web application that makes it easy to create and discover interesting shapes using the 2D superformula, with the ability to export both SVGs and raster images for use with plotters, laser cutters, and more. In contrast to more utilitarian interactive apps, SuperformulaSVG enables a more playful process of ‘stumbling’ […]
Cast bronze supershapes from 3D-printed forms using the lost ABS process
December 13th, 2012 – Last month, I prepared a batch of small 3D-printed objects for the “lost ABS” process, some to be cast in aluminum and the rest in bronze. One of the pieces, a 3D-printed two-part mold, was placed in the kiln on Tuesday and cast with aluminum on Thursday. The other three pieces were all supershapes I […]
Making 3D-printable open-face molds with OpenSCAD + casting experiments
November 26th, 2012 – Working with my university's sculpture program, I learned as much as I could about traditional mold-making techniques and processes in Fall 2012. I decided to try to integrate the university's new Makerbot Replicator into these processes, beginning with creating open-face molds. Includes casting attempts using Oogoo and chocolate.
Gelatin casting experiment with 3D-printed mold
October 3rd, 2012 – This semester I’m experimenting with 3D printing in the arts, specifically in mold-making, casting and sculpture. 3D printing has the potential to offer some really important advantages for artists, if its used in the right way. In the last couple of weeks in particular I’ve been thinking about how I could use 3D printing to […]
Experimenting with the superformula and 3D printing
September 24th, 2012 – A few months ago I cooked up a simple Processing sketch to generate 2D SVG line art using the superformula, and ever since then I’ve been a little bit obsessed with the possibilities of this mathematical equation. This formula is able to generate a pretty surprising range of interesting organic shapes, and can easily be […]