Structural Ornament – Michal Piasecki

Structural Ornament is a project created between Michal Piasecki and Malgorzata Mozolewska ,it has the objective of embedding algorithmic aesthetics into structural logic.

Michal was the responsible of the software development created in processing. It usesan arbitrary shaped mesh as an input. The user is then able to assign the forces. The software then conducts a series of steps to generate a 3d printable infill responsive to the forces present. First is a structural analysis using a direct stiffness method. An outcome of this is a 3-dimensional array of voxels, each containing data on the forces and displacement. This data is used to generate a grid of points which becomes denser where forces are greater. Then the infill is generated based on this grid, thus it becomes responsive to the forces present.

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