A lovely drawing of three different lampreys: the sea lamprey, lampern, and Planer’s lamprey. Drawing by Alexander Francis Lydon, 1878.
Growing Shell Forms: Progress
More progress “growing” heatsink shells – each of these is built up using successive images in Processing, then converted using Fiji (similar to how an MRI can be turned into a 3D model). They’re then cleaned up and rendered in Rhino.
The fingers will act as heatsink fins, drawing up heat. Spirals, concentric circles, and various parameters for random growth change the form.
Experimenting with sharp fins at the top.
Growing Shell Forms
Some in-progress images of a new project, commissioned for the Digital Spring Media Art Festival in Austria in March. Above, a rendering of a 3D-printed copper heatsink/shell; below some sketches in Processing exploring how to grow the layers of the shell.
Grid Filter: WIP
Some experiments converting images to a series of differently-sized grids. Not sure where this is headed, but I like the competing patterns and emerging forms. (Click for full size – lots more details.)
Every FM Radio Station Rendering
Rendering of a piece to (hopefully) be made soon: 93 handmade radios, playing every possible FM station. The piece changes completely when installed in a new city.
Label Tests
Test labels for an upcoming sculpture/measuring device, based on vintage machine labels.