ReginaldIII t1_izt74cb wrote on December 11, 2022 at 5:56 PM

Beautiful. Really beautiful work.

I love the whole presentation too. Great design and composition.

RomanRiesen t1_iztyj2q wrote on December 11, 2022 at 8:50 PM

I'm much more impressed by the rendering of the sculptures (lighting & angles & compositions) than by the statues themselves tbh.

Not that the idea itself isn't also really cool though.

onformative OP t1_izw1ksy wrote on December 12, 2022 at 6:55 AM

Agree, the statues definitely have a high level of imperfection. What we found interesting in the end though is that you can clearly see the traces of the different tools used so even after the sculpting is done you can still see or at least get an idea of the agents behaviour by the traces it left on the sculpture itself.

ReginaldIII t1_izwn6zb wrote on December 12, 2022 at 11:53 AM

I like them, flaws and all. My doctorate was computer graphics and my flat is full of 3D printed sculptures of generative art and canvas prints of visualisations and slime moulds and all sorts.

The imperfections are what gives them character.

onformative OP t1_izwydiq wrote on December 12, 2022 at 1:45 PM

Nice! Yeah generative art is exactly where we are coming from, if you are into this topic you might have heard about the "Generative Design" book. Anyway.

I totally agree with you about the imperfection, especially if you look at it from a creative perspective, that's when interesting things happen. We wanted to keep this rough state, also to make the progress visible. When I talk about it in lectures, I often show the image below, where you can clearly see the use of the tool through the traces, which is something we wanted to keep and transfer to the digital realm.

https://backend.onformative.com/assets/work/tools.jpg

RomanRiesen t1_izxysue wrote on December 12, 2022 at 5:59 PM

I think you might have misunderstood me.

I do like the sculptures themselves quite a bit!

But with the striking lighting the pieces look like pieces I could see hanging in my room, which is very rare. I like my walls blank and cold.

onformative OP t1_izw1f9q wrote on December 12, 2022 at 6:53 AM

Hello, thank you very much. Being a design studio with a strong focus on digital art and technology, visual representation play an important role in our process. Especially because we are interested in what all the technological advancements mean for us as designers.