Another product of Experimental Form. The Waveform Organizer is a desk shelf, the intersection of two sine waves which creates pockets and shelves to stash your things. The materials are a white ash ply and white acrylic bound with polished steel hardware to keep the acrylic suspended.

While this doesn’t hail from computation nearly as much as my other pieces in this class, I did put together a few small programs to help the composition and in order to print out working documents for working with in the shop.

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An update on the global typography. I’ve filled in the western hemisphere, and extruded each country in respect to their population per sq. mile. Because the extrusions are essentially cone shaped, I’m actually extruding by the square root of the population per sq. mile. This also emphasizes the differences between most countries while making the sharp peaks not quite as harsh.

The result of printing…
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I’d like to share a work in progress. I’ve been tossing around ideas of what to do with our 3D printer, what might be interesting and engaging. I eventually arrived at this concept.

Each country is represented in their own language, the type creating the shape of the country, each done by hand. I hope that the hand-craft aesthetic of the type is an interesting juxtaposition with the process and material. Each country will be extruded outward a different distance, to correspond to some data set, such as population. Perhaps a series of these could account for multiple data sets.

This post is just to show the proof of concept. I’m working on a piece of software to generate the files to send to the 3D printer. Read on for how I’m doing this.

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