Printing Porcelain in 3D
This winter, we found out about a kickstarter for new 3D-printable ceramic called Porcelite by Tethon3D. Though we are often skeptical of kickstarters,…
Category: work in progress
prototyping with the Form 1+
We recently welcomed a Form 1+ 3D-printer to our office. Even though we have 5 (?!?) FDM printers in our office, we never…
floraform – 5 point growth
I rendered this animation last night of one of my favorite floraform pieces we’ve generated so far. It exhibits an odd, spiraling, 5-form…
thinking about zoetropes
We are working on a series of 3D zoetropes for our upcoming exhibit, “Growing Objects,” at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics…
morphogenesis – work in progress
Finally, we have some progress to share on something we’ve been working on for a long time! This project focuses on the differential…
updates from Nervous System: radiolaria table, 2-color 3d-printing and more
We’re following through with our promise to add tables to the Radiolaria app. Soon you will be able to design your own cellular…
faceted ellipsoid mirror
Yesterday, we fabricated a faceted ellipsoid mirror following up on some of the tangent planes work we’ve done over the years. The mirror…
Nervous System weekly roundup 12/31/12-01/6/13
We’re starting a new tradition at Nervous System of sharing the work we do each week. Although the timing may be suspect, this…
Loading 3D models in WebGL
For a new app we’re working on, we finally came upon the task of loading external 3D geometry. I wanted to store and…
working on new generative lamp designs
We’re working on a number of different lamps designs that we hope to introduce at ICFF this May. This lamp will be comparatively…