Ivan Hruszecky's Experimental Modelling: March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Special Thanks

A special thanks goes out to my brilliant tutor Danny Nguyen, without his help none of this would have been possible. :)

Grasshopper and Rhino Files

Grasshopper and Rhino Files

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20170036/Submisiion+Grasshopper+and+Rhino+File.zip

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Solanum lycopersicum being the scientific name of a tomato is the experimental modeling object that is explored here. I became aware of the elegantly simple yet complex internals of this fruit when I was cutting them in wedges for a salad. The three primary elements that were explored were its core and shell, its membrane and its seeds. In this combination I expanded on the elements (inside a 3D parametric program) which produced some fascinating form and space.

An image of all three elements used in combination to produce what could be a conceptual futuristic thoroughfare within a city, the core and shell (forming walls on each side of the walkway), the membrane (semi transparent glass creating a ceiling) and the seeds (each a source of light). The concept is complimented by the surface of the walls which reflect the glass dome membrane (or ceiling) and seeds. This reflection creates a second iteration that could be seen as the inside surface texture of the tomato. The semi transparent membrane both compliments an actual tomato’s membrane and also helps accentuate the ‘seeds’ as they shine through and around.

These iterations present the discovery of a walkway, each segment membrane viewed from ‘ground level’ forms an aesthetic protective ceiling that when lit with light creates an imaginative walkthrough. The ceiling could be seen as the membrane protecting its seeds (or the humans faring through) and one feels naturally drawn to move through it with the eye.

The smaller iterations are both membrane and seed experimentations exaggerated within different concepts. For example, morphing the curvilinear form of the shell for each membrane segment created a very sharp and hazardous environment which does not reflect the essence of a tomato. Other iterations particularly the cubic seeds (bottom left) dominated the scene as the form loses some sense of flow and appears neither organic nor a representation of its inspirational origin. I felt the wire extrusion formed from a membrane offset was a very elegant discovery. The rib cage-like form creates a very organic iteration.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Animation of Iteration

Iterations Continue

At this point I was concentrating on the tomato's organic membrane, manipulating the primary seed geometry and offsetting it to get a voluminous form. (Image: Screenshot from Rhino and colors inverted to define the form more clearly).

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Poster Layout

It is in my opinion that images and text together do not match when one is displaying aesthetic work. The core layout idea is to seperate the text and images as further away from each other as possible. The poster could have a primary (1 image) secondary (4 images) and smaller (7 images) of iteration variants. This breaks up the overall distinction and does force all the images to compete with one another for attention. Division is calculated along a grided surface.

Iterations - Development

I found it interesting that with a quick change in iteration the image turns into a snake scale like display.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Research - Seeds

References

Fotolia - http://en.fotolia.com/id/6052644

Iterations - Experimentations

Research - Strawberry Crossbreed

What appears to be a Strawberry-Tomato image below was an interesting find as the inside of the tomato has quite and elegant concave surface.

This tomato was accidently discovered in Dean Wilson's property, and what seems to be a cross breed of a tomato plant and strawberry plant.

Another case was mentioned here and the contrast more definable.