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.
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.
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.
fernando molas garcia
bello !
Jan 3, 2012
Patrick
It's awesome... would you share the definition?
Jan 5, 2012
Mehmet Ali
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
Jan 5, 2012
Jonah Hawk
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.
Jan 5, 2012
Jonah Hawk
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
Jan 5, 2012