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- Inspired by cell division, Michael Hansmeyer writes algorithms that design outrageously fascinating shapes and forms with millions of facets. No person could draft them by hand, but they're buildable -- and they could revolutionize the way we think of architectural form.
Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer who explores the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural form. Full bio: www.ted.com/spe...
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Very cool, still wouldn't mind knowing how you "fold" a cube
3d softwares allow u to do this.... I'm learning but can't tell u the exact process yet sorry for replying so late btw
@@mim073 lol.. you are useless (after 9 years ahahahah)
@@blenderguy3250 lmao...I guess so but it can happen is all I meant to say
@@mim073 WHICH SOFTWARE DO YOU USING FOR THIS
@@bhushanmuluk9408 any software, try using blender. It's free
As a student just started learning architect and digital modeling, what he shows really fascinate me for the possibility of using algorism. Technology can push ourselves beyond our creativity. The column he made is purely the product on algorism it is cool. On the other hand, I feel taste of culture, sth that people can resonate, provoke is an essential element in building our environment. I really wonder and curious about what we will have for the future architecture.
TED is almost ALWAYS brilliant but this one was incredibly inspiring to me. Breathtaking.
Wow, that was incredible. I was pretty impressed when he finally said that he'd managed to get them built.
Exquisite! This is a trend becoming more prevalent as time goes on, acknowledging the limit of a human direct designer and instead emphasising designing the process.
These agorithms + 3d printers = amazing table top art
A pure reflection of the underlying replication code of the universe. The universe is hardwired for this structuring and replication. From simplicity comes complexity.
Just amazing.
Your own questions have the potencial of answering themselves. Increased strenght with a tiny fraction of the material, Improved absortion, light absortion and conduction, embedded air cooling, extraction, etc... There is still a long way to go in development. Function following form is a very common thing in sience history.
im not an Indonesian guy, but in Indonesia, these sculptures can be hand-made carved in stones each and every small details of it. I've been once in Bali and i was just amazed by their detail stones walls and carvings. and they don't use 3d noise plugin. :D
Wow, you put in words something that I only had a vague sense of, and could never have expressed myself. Thanks!
I don't know how original these ideas are, but it's a very illustrative example of the power of simple rules producing complex systems.
This is the wonderful successor to Gaudi, HR. Giger, Dali, Escher,and Buckminster Fuller (and many other artists). This is their wildest dreams mixed with organic growth & algorithmic science made real.
It makes sense that these shapes look organic. Organisms create themselves from their DNA using simple, repeated processes, just like the computer creates these shapes.
this can be done easily in Blender 3D software : add a bevel modifyer on the cube, then a wireframe; make it fatter, add a wireframe modifyer again, a subsurf , and a displacement.
Tadaah ! you can make wild symmetric geometry in a few seconds !
tht was superb...i don't know how gaudi did it during his time....the designs reminded me of his forms...
Technology check, Entertainment nope, Design check.
2/3. Which is better than 90% of TED. Nice work :)
Wishing the technology to physically manufacture these forms with much greater ease will come soon. Fascinating stuff.
This man has a great imagination of architecture.. Wish him all the luck with his project :)
That is incredibly amazing! Imagine PRINTING your own house!
indeed. but i wouldn't be surprised if the texture is partially generated. as hansmeyer mentioned, there is still a lot of tweeking required to create cool visuals as opposed to the 99% noise. terrains, for example, are mostly generated in the digital world now (like Avatar's landscape, which is made with Vue)
I love the whole idea. ABS seems like the only practical material at the moment for 3D printing. At least that way it can be cleaned easily. Dusting the paper ones would be next to impossible.
Unreal and beautiful.
Beautiful shapes inspired by nature... here is the big issue with this effort to bring it to life - with the modern design's focus on bio-mimicry and on reducing waste in manufacturing processes, my question would be: How sustainable is this type of architecture? and is printing an entire model out of polymer plastic sustainable and responsible? How do 3D printers fit into the cradle to cradle design? Just curious if anyone has answers....
Paulina Nowicka well the US Navy is attempting to build an entire 3D printed ship so....
Art has a cost my friend, maybe time, money etc
WELL, if you're trying to make organic shapes, you COULD just 'grow' these structures rather than build them. Of course, this would require some level of nanotechnology, but it's worth considering.
Reminds me of the work of Gaudi. Perhaps these methods could even be used to help finish his works.
Amazing, i've been teaching a generative arte course for 15 year old kids, and so many of what i've learned is embeded in what you say in this talk, so i wonder Could this be some kind of generative architecture?
These structures are beautiful, like something you could only conceive in a dream. Id love to live in a world surrounded by architecture that would make our modern cities look like stone age technology
The process described is *not* inspired "by nature", but by *mathematics* . Maths is generally agreed *not* to be a natural science, but rather a human-created philosophical system of describing phenomenon, very few of which are directly transferrable to evolutionary shaped forms that can be observed in nature. One way or another, folding a cube is as highly an artificial a process as it gets. I have to agree with my pre-posters: This has little practical value, it is art of art's sake. Which is fine by me if I see it in a spiffy SciFi movie, but certainly not in the building I work in. And that's not even addressing sustainability.
I agree perhaps about the sustainability and safety of certain structures created this way, but nature is mathematical. All living things and even the outer reaches of the galaxy are influenced by mathematical properties. The Fibonacci Sequence is clear and visible in nature from the golden spiral of a Nautilus shell to the logarithmic spiraling motion of the galaxies, nature and mathematics are very much in line with each other.
You can find perfect cubes and spheres in nature under extreme conditions though.
when i see vid's like this i remember that the slogan of ted is " spread the idea " :D
I recall when fractals were the big thing. They're very similar: fascinating, repetitive shapes with intricacies at all scales, all generated from relatively simple algorithms, and with proven examples in nature. What I don't recall were people running out and saying, "Hey, we gotta build stuff from this".
OK, I've got an open mind... What's the big difference here?
good forms but i think the symmetry makes them static, almost as if to say theyve hit the uncanny valley of forms, parametric-ism however gives a more natural (nature like) appeal to forms .
Yes fractal concepts are there... But experimenting and bringing that into reality is an amazing progression...with 3D printing, flying robots innumerable possibilities...
Thank u all very much
Streatched in my capacity to imagine new forms. A beautiful glimpse in God's design.
The best art is unsettling.
First of all i want to say your voice is god level soothing for me
It's so baroque baby! Reminds me of the image of a fly as visualized by an electron microscope. This is the stuff from which nightmares unfold.
Unlike almost every TED speaker, I liked his voice trough the whole presentation. He would make a nice job working at movies. Peace
wow ! amazing algorithm technology by TED . Great job ;)
Dam I love fractals! Fractal art in real world?... *dies from awesome*
This is the niche of 3D printers. Creating objects of such detail that they would take a lifetime to produce in the physical world, but a computer could produce thousands... beautiful.
accurate and beautifully said!
good explanation .... I like ....
Within the imagination it is to take all the elements for development ........
the cylinder input looks badass
Regardless, he has a point: as the guy said - this is incredibly labour intensive and impractical. I'd love to see this type of thing become a reality - a new architectural era, but how are you supposed to make one that would be truly useful? Those columns are holding up how much weight? I can't see them bearing too much of a load.
Hi guys, which software is used to do these miracles?
I really want to be a parametric architect! I wonder what comes after parametric architecture? How long will I have to wait to find out?
i have a very interesting drawing based on the symetrry of the square making a strange fractal shape
Cylindrical video screens should make it possible to have the shapes rendered in real time. Then the columns could be changed between simple and complex as well as intricate color patterns or monochromatic etc. Interesting.
They look perfect for the Chronicles of Ridick universe!
oooooh yeah. Love this stuff!
Beautiful..
This.... this is creativity
My argument was that because Christians (including clerics) practised science openly, and they didn't receive any opposition for practicing science qua science, then that must mean that the Church has not been opposed to science. If it were, you could imagine it rebuking Christian scientists simply because they practiced science. But no such thing happened. The fact that the Church didn't let them leave the Church, as you pointed out, does not refute my conclusion. In fact, it supports it.
Why? These are simple slices which can be processed by any computer with a decent CPU. The secred behind it to render one slice at a time. The problem is only that there is no printer in the world that could possibly create the final form in one process, because its way too complex for it to keep up.
16 million facets it quite high, yes with decent cpu/gpu it is very possible, but it is much higher than an average computer, my schools graphics computers tend to crash at about 4 million facets
That looks amazing.
early application for ANYTHING is always a grey area until years later when we look back and say "i dont know how i would live without that". do you really think when electricity was first being developed the average person thought a lightening bolt travelling down a kite would be what it is today? this is why noble prizes are typically given to discoveries that were made years ago--because the significance is not solidified until later.
Very clever idea. I tip my hat to you sir.
the thought is great! but i have a new idea, i think the most important thing is to create a method to construct these shapes(not using 3D printing but a method which is also compatible with your physical laws)
Robotics
It's pretty but what about functionality? When nature does something it's usually for a reason. Increased strength, greater surface area for memory, cooling or heating, light gathering, improved hearing, improved adsorption.... What functional benefit can you add to your pretty columns? Otherwise they are just dust collectors.
Beautiful really
Interesting, not sure if I'd want to live with that sort of design. I prefer the minimalistic, these structures are just far to intricate for me to fully enjoy.
I sort of have to agree with you there... the only way this could be relevant is if combined with 3D printers to physically render these designs... and then it couldn't be called art, because it isn't the product of an artist, but of an algorithm. Doing this would also cheapen actual art.
What software did he use to create those forms?
processing
AutoCAD
Or better yet. download Mandelbulb 3D fractal software and you can achieve the same type of forms.
Where can I download the algorithms?
Nothing quite like cleaning dirt out of a fractal....
They're interesting forms, but I personally find their structural qualities on a micro scale to be more interesting than their overall appearance.
It's called art. You may have heard of it. We make sound for sounds sake, and call it Music. We arrange words into literature not for functionality, but for what it says to us. Why can't we have architecture for architectures sake?
Inspired by cell division. Awesome. If only we could find ways to grow buildings.
But imagine a capitol city with sky scrapers and complexes that looked like these forms, it would be stunning, certainly it would make our cities look like they were from the stone age
Think about the Locus hives from gears of war 2, thats what the columns reminded me of
At work we get plans from upstairs that fit perfect (on computer) .On the shop floor, not so much..
How do you dust them?
Is there a way to do this in Blender? Can anyone tell me?
woowee! can't wait to clean them columns
Very true.
We can also recombine molecules into cute compilations that may or may not be poisonous. Form without consideration to purpose. Maybe that is what people are to God.
I love you TED :-)
I have difficulties to understand the meaning of this talk.
Why abs for huge columns ? I'd use a finer quality large scale printer that can extrude some kind of mix of cement and gypsum .
beautiful
Your "cool so what?" comment just came off as super douchey, ya know? That's probably why it was downvoted by so many people.
What I meant was...if you think people are just blown away by complex cool shapes...then you're totally missing the point altogether. I could explain it to you, but it would take more than a youtube comment. There's WAY more to this stuff than what you are talking about.
As for it not mattering what you do. How does that NOT matter? It matters very much...
now we can use VR to virtually jump inside this world
Whats really interesting to me is the possibility of scaling this. At First, i thought this would be an amazing scifi City scape😱
Good answer ;-)
how about organism living structure. process to generate
I think Gaudi would have loved this program.
brilliant
I'm pretty sure such algorithms have been used for 20-30 years in computer graphics as a way of efficiently producing landscapes which look like, well, natural landscapes. So the ideas presented here are hardly new... maybe in architecture they are.
i want these columns so bad ;_;
Yea problem is that it would be impossible for you to run in real-time with objects that have that many polygons. Regardless of what we would like, our tech is not powerful enough right now.
Something like that would be achieved through lower polygon-counts and textures/normals.
Anyone knows how to code this on grasshopper ?
Your initial comment explicitly mentioned that "the Church", and I explicitly mentioned in my reply that the *Church* vs science characterisation is a bad one. From the start this has been about *the Church* and science and I have been arguing about *the Church* the whole time, which I take to mean all of Christianity ever. You introduced the word religion at a later time. Unless you take 'church' to mean Islam and all religion, or a recent localised branch of Christianity, get back on topic.
Who would want to live with those complex structures in their house? It would feel like being inside an alien spaceship
imagine the number of polygons on a single column. most people would lag out.
Impressive
It's called art. I do see your point, but this is not engineering, it's architecture and art :)
Kind of reminds me of that Alien artist... H R Geiger (I think)?
So these are basically fractal patterns?
If we bring this idea into outer world buildings (once we start colonizing outer space) the possibilities are endless.
we already do. fractals have always been around.
Creationists would refute that this is possible because they would call it, 'increasing information' without intelligently designing it.
как это воплотить??? У меня много идей, а реализация ?