{"id":9464,"date":"2024-08-27T22:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=9464"},"modified":"2024-08-27T22:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:36:34","slug":"introduction-nathaniel-filer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2024\/08\/27\/introduction-nathaniel-filer\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction &#8211; Nathaniel Filer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, my name is Nathaniel Filer, and I am in the second year of my CS Master&#8217;s at UNM.  I enrolled in this class because I was interested in learning something a little more concrete than what I&#8217;ve learned in most of my other CS classes thus far.  I&#8217;ve been interested in 3D modeling for quite some time (as a kid I loved messing around with Blender and GroBoto), so I&#8217;m super excited for the content in this course!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BLOOMS 2: Strobe Animated Sculptures Invented by John Edmark\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/198150547?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project I have chosen to write about here is one I discovered for the first time several years ago on YouTube: Blooms by John Edmark (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnedmark.com\/#\/phi\/\">http:\/\/www.johnedmark.com\/#\/phi\/<\/a>).  John Edmark, who teaches at Stanford University, was researching phyllotaxy (the arrangement of petals or leaves on a plant), and the spirals that are formed by it.  He began to create versions of these spiral designs with tiling (using a laser cutter and wood), and found several interesting things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>each tile of the design was the same shape, but no two tiles were the same size\u2014they got slightly larger as they spiraled outward.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>when he took any one tile from the design, the next biggest tile would be 137.5 degrees (the golden angle) around the design, at the end of one of the other spirals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>when he created a stop motion animation, rotating the design 137.5 degrees each frame, it gave the illusion that the tiles were originating in the center and slowly growing and moving outwards<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using these discoveries, he began to design blooms (as seen in the video above)\u20143D-printed sculptures that are meant to be spun and strobed at a certain rate, so that you see them every 137.5 degrees.  These all give the impression of growing outward or folding inward, and the designs also allow for other transformative effects to be animated.  And they all use the same basic spiral pattern observed in plants.  I don&#8217;t know what software or programming language he used to design the sculptures, but it had to have been something with the potential for mathematical precision!  I found John Edmark&#8217;s work fascinating because his process was so observational and playful\u2014just noticing and exploring interesting properties and relationships between things, and that his process led him to such an amazing discovery!  I&#8217;ve also always loved geometry, and his work involves geometry in really exciting ways.  Below is a video of a talk describing these things in more detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JohnEdmarkTalk\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/188437534?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Nathaniel Filer, and I am in the second year of my CS Master&#8217;s at UNM. I enrolled in this class because I was interested in learning something a little more concrete than what I&#8217;ve learned in most of my other CS classes thus far. 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