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FREQUENCIES

Project by Convivial Studios for Autodesk Pier 9 incorporates generative models made with CNC milling with interactive projection mapping to create installation with fluid dynamics:

FREQUENCIES is a shape and color study. CNC machined reliefs were generated from a custom application using different frequencies of Perlin Noise algorithm. Modulating variables the 3D reliefs are imitating fluid and rocky patterns. The generative application allows an infinite number of outcomes. In order to leave room to the viewer’s imagination, we created a gradation in the way the patterns evolve throughout the triptych. The projection layer on top is blending the triptych elements and aims to challenge the perception of the relief. The interactive projection is playing on the duality of the flat surface and the carved relief area. 

The Juno Great Red Spot images are amazing, but this 3D image showing the depth of the storms is just breath taking

komorebi

Design project by Leslie Nooteboom is a lamp that can project artificial natural lighting onto walls, created with high-rise apartment spaces in mind:

komorebi is sunlight filtering through leaves, creating a dance of light and shadows where filtered sunrays hit a surface. It is the reflections on pavements underneath centuries-old trees on a sunny day, and moving, framed lightboxes through windows of homes onto walls. However, these days buildings are taller than they have ever been, creating a place to live for as many people as possible on the tiniest piece of land possible. Homes become a place of isolation from the outside – windows are absent or so tiny that even the idea of nature disappears, and lighting has become so artificial that there is no sense of day, time or place anymore.

komorebi lets you curate natural lighting experiences indoors.

In a time where indoor sunlight is becoming more scarce, the need for technological nature is increasing. With an ever growing global population and urbanisation levels reaching huge rates, fewer living spaces are able to receive direct sunlight. There are attempts at solving this issue, however these are very static. Intensity and colour seem to be the only way in which their light is dynamic.