Author: Jakub Petr

The MOON table

 

We colaborated at this contract with my colegues Filip Dobias and David Gabera from the Crystal Creative studio. It is a 750mm in diameter and 40mm high glass table. The design obvoiusly came from the familiar look of the MOON, the shading comes from the variation of the thickness of the glass. It was made by casting pieces of gray-violet glass in to the CNC carved relief mould. Glass was melted at 950°C and cooled for several weeks then. After that, the glass was cleaned, hand cut, acid atched and hand polished, then the finnished piece of glass was attached to the steel legs.

ALGORITHMIC GROWTH, Reaction Diffusion n.1

This is the first post from the algorithmic growth series of objects, created through the process of generative design. These organic looking objects come from the backgoud of Allan Turing´s theory of the natural pattern creation. ¨This concept introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis” which describes how patterns in nature, such as stripes and spots, can arise naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state. / The original theory, a reaction–diffusion theory of morphogenesis, has served as an important model in theoretical biology. / Turing proposed a model wherein two homogeneously distributed substances (P and S) interact to produce stable patterns during morphogenesis. These patterns represent regional differences in the concentrations of the two substances.¨ (Wikipedia)

I used this theoretical models in modeling software, to create organic patterns applied at the mathematical model of the relaxed elastic membrane created among 3 points and the circle abow them. The object created by this formula is yet another example of the naturally created geometry.