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Comment by jonah hawk on January 5, 2012 at 11:17am

Ha! Mehmet, we posted at the same time I didn't see your post when I wrote mine. 

That is great work that you made those pieces by hand.

The definition for this one is fairly dynamic, as it can create the ring widths using a bezier curve. I then created a polygonal def that splits segments at the corners and evenly across segments. I also have twisting and eccentric circle definitions. Then I made definitions that work on any given input curve. These are the most fun for me. You can feed it a list of curves to create a cellular network of forms.

In my eyes I see this material as "Expanded metal"

Cheers,

Jonah

Comment by jonah hawk on January 5, 2012 at 4:07am

I'm not the first person to generate this form. I've shared the definition before. It really isn't hard to generate; especially with a circular shape. With circles, create an arc and feed it a list of radii. Take every second arc and rotate them half of the included angle of the arcs. Group all of them and array them about the center point.

Try the definition yourself and post it. I will help you if you get stuck. You'll get more out of it if you figure it out on your own.

Check out Mehmet Ali's elegant forms and Sarah Krieger's work as well.

Comment by Mehmet Ali on January 5, 2012 at 3:14am

Hi Jonah,

From the image I understand that you have equal sized gaps and connectors on every line. You can achieve really interesting free standing shapes by varying sized gaps and connectors. I did not have the chance to reach a laser cutter so I tried lots of experiments on a cutting mat and with a hand cutter. And for the images I have uploaded I havent used alo GH defs, I have just drawn them in AutoCad wthout any scripts. After I have tried with GH but I have found Autocad trials were more flexible. GH was limiting the creaativity in the borders of the def.

I also would like to ask you if you have any idea to name this kind of production. So many times I have tried to mention this but I could not find a suitable name for it.

Cheers,

Mehmet

Comment by Patrick on January 5, 2012 at 12:41am

It's awesome... would you share the definition?

Comment by fernando molas garcia on January 3, 2012 at 2:58pm

bello !