[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: [Deep-clock] The World's Most Complex Architecture: Cardboard Columns With 16 Million Facets (FastCo)

[Stewart Dickson]

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Subject: 	[Deep-clock] The World's Most Complex Architecture: Cardboard 
Columns With 16 Million Facets (FastCo)
Date: 	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:18:48 -0800
From: 	Paul Saffo <paul at saffo.com>
To: 	Design D-List <deep-clock at list.longnow.org>



Now is this cool. or what!
-p

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663306/the-worlds-most-complex-architecture-cardboard-columns-with-16-million-facets


Hansmeyer developed his concept by taking a traditional Doric column and 
feeding the form into his computer where his subdivision algorithm could 
go to work on it.
Photograph courtesy of Michael Hansmeyer





Michael Hansmeyer uses algorithms invented by Pixar and painstaking 
handicraft to generate columns with dizzying detail.
When people mistake photographs of your physical prototypes for computer 
renderings, you know you've achieved something amazing. That's exactly 
what happened when Michael Hansmeyer showed off his "computational 
architecture" column, created by iterating a subdivision algorithm over 
and over again and then fabricating it out of cardboard.

Hansmeyer's column stands nine feet tall, weighs about 2000 pounds, and 
is made out of 2700 1mm-thin slices of cardboard stacked on top of 
wooden cores. It contains somewhere between 8 and 16 million polygonal 
faces -- too complex for even a 3D printer to handle, according to 
Hansmeyer. "Every 3D printing facility we spoke to turned us down," he 
tells Co.Design. "Typically those machines can't process more than 
500,000 faces -- the computer memory required to process the data grows 
nonlinearly, and it also gets tripped up on the self-intersecting faces 
of the column."

But Hansmeyer's prototype is very real -- in fact, it can even support 
weight, and the designer wants to experiment with more robust materials 
so that he can actually start building real structures with his 
"computational" architectural forms. So how did Hansmeyer actually get 
this thing out of his computer and into the real world? Take a look at 
this slideshow to find out.


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