new Spiral Puzzles
The Spiral Puzzle is a twist on traditional jigsaw puzzles. Usually you begin a puzzle by assembling the edge pieces and then work inwards. However, with the Spiral Puzzles, the […]
Author Archives: Jesse Louis-Rosenberg
Goodbye Boston, Hello Catskills
Nervous System Moves to the Catskills Big news! We are relocating from Somerville, MA, our home for the last 8 years, to the Catskills in New York. Our new studio will be within […]
Floraform – an exploration of differential growth
Introducing Floraform, the latest generative design system from Nervous System. Floraform is inspired by the biomechanics of growing leaves and blooming flowers and explores the development of surfaces through differential […]
an animated tribute to the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
One of our favorite books from last year is Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The book is written from the perspective of a biologist on a scientific expedition to Area X, […]
Kinematics
Kinematics is a system for 4D printing that creates complex, foldable forms composed of articulated modules. The system provides a way to turn any three-dimensional shape into a flexible structure […]
The Making of Kinematics
Most of our projects start with a natural inspiration, but Kinematics emerged from a very different perspective. This project started with a technical problem: how can we create large objects […]
Calculating the volume of a mesh
In order to generate the price of a custom design on the fly, we need to calculate the volume of the piece for 3d printing. By constantly updating the volume, […]
Data structures: Pairing Heap
Recently, I came across a neat data structure called a pairing heap. Now, if you’re not familiar with the term heap it can sound confusing. That’s because it doesn’t mean much. […]
OBJExport library – export color meshes from Processing
We’ve just released a new Processing 2.0 library for exporting OBJ and X3D mesh files. And it supports color meshes! Now you can export color models for 3D-printing with same […]
Surface meshing pt 2 – Surface remeshing
The next iteration of the surface meshing algorithm from the previous post is surface remeshing. Surface meshing is the process of taking an existing mesh and generating a new mesh […]