Archive for the ‘evolutionary algorithms’ Category
Critical Practice, a cluster of artists, researchers and academics hosted by Chelsea College of Art and Design has recently commissioned Ola Wasilkowska and Michal Piasecki to design a temporary spatial intervention for their Parade event. The event took place on 21-23 May, 2010 at Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground in London. The structure, called Assemblage in [...]
Filed under: 01 design, 05 programming, scripting, parametric modeling, evolutionary algorithms, generative design, genetic algorithms, processing | 2 Comments
Tags: Assemblage in Public, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Critical Practice, Marsha Bradfield, Michal Piasecki, Neil Cummings, Ola Wasilkowska
Green2 is a new polish architecture and design magazine focused on sustainability. Their second issue is on biomimetic design and Michal Piasecki was asked to write an article on computational means of introducing biomimetics into the design process. The article begins with the discussion of Andrew Kudless’ P-Wall project. An inquiry which seems to be [...]
Filed under: 07 texts, design, design as a hybrid of fields, evolutionary algorithms, generative design | Leave a Comment
Tags: Achim Menges, biomimetics, Carl Sims, computational biomimetics, Green2, Michal Piasecki, Stephen Todd, William Latham
Many thanks to everyone who decided to participate in the Breeding Objects Experiment 01. My initial hypothesis was that configurators with artificial selection in a GA implemented may prove to be a better tool to navigate through solution spaces with larger amount of dimensions. In other words, genetic algorithms are better tools to look for [...]
Filed under: 03 research, breeding objects experiment 01, breeding objects experiment 02, configurators, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, mass customization | 1 Comment
Tags: Federico Weber, Voronoi diagram, Xylem
Breeding Objects Experiment 01
Breeding Objects Experiment 01 is my first experiment with configurators for mass customization of products over the Internet, conducted as part of PhD research at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies. The experiment is a comparison of two types of configurators: “parametric” configurators and genetic algorithms configurators. In parametric configurators users have to specify the [...]
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Evolve rings where commissioned and are distributed by Fluid Forms. I have co-designed them together with Krystian Kwiecinski and they are available for purchase since today. They where designed with an aid of an artificial selection in genetic algorithm (GA). I have developed the phenotype together with Krystian and then wrote a purpose-built GA tool [...]
Filed under: 01 design, 05 programming, scripting, parametric modeling, digital fabrication, evolutionary algorithms, generative design, genetic algorithms, mass customization, printing in 3d, processing | 3 Comments
Tags: Fluid Forms, GA, jewelry, Krystian Kwiecinski, ring
John Frazer’s “An Evolutionary Architecture” from 1995 is an obligatory read for anyone interested in the amalgam of evolutionary computation and design. In other words anyone interested in the potential of “breeding designs” using evolutionary algorithms (genetic algorithms belong to this category). I was very happy to see it available online for free from the [...]
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Tags: AA, An Evolutionary Architecture, Architectural Association, John Frazer
