I think that all of this stuff is just tools. If you are a real designer, why would you want to be limited to just pencil and paper? Why not wood, metal, clay, etc? Or worse; JUST Photoshop hahaha. That's just my opinion, though.
Anyways...
The first is of a curve that acts as what is called an Attract0r; essentially, stimuli is repelled based on distance away from it, and acts as such. If I were to move the curve, the red grid would respond accordingly, based on each object's distance from that curve. If you were to think about this as say, a wall of light where a person would walk, as they walked towards certain points, that area would not receive light or however you programmed it.
The second is taking a series of values based on a pattern; the values based on the pattern are either True or False (ie 1 or 0). So either they exist or not based on the algorithm that the values are passed through. From then, the ones that are true (the blue) are extruded.
The third (red curvy thing) is mapping a box with an object onto a curved surface. Yes, like pr0jection mapping. It's like p@nelling.
The last of the two towers is based on a project that was actually pitched and won for a design of two Towers in Toronto. Apparently, although they won the pitch for the project, it literally only took them ten minutes to build within the programme. Essentially, it's taking a series of circles or polygons and twisting it about its axis, while randomizing the radius of each polygons (which are of course, elevated up from each other like rings on a bamboo shoot). Then, each ring/ polygon is connected so that it is like a skin. It's like a thin ex0-skeleton, which is being used more and more in buildings (see Z@ha H@did's work). I rendered out the model quickly of the blue tower to show what it would look like in quick shading.
Okey doke. That's it for this weekend. More in the next three days! :)
Its true! Why limit yourself? :D The more tools you have at your disposal the easier it is to express yourself.
ReplyDelete