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Gonzo Cubes

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Gonzo Cubes

solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

status : on-going

Gonzo Cubes are 10,000 uniquely generated digital collectibles living on the Polygon blockchain.

Each Gonzo Cube is unique and programmatically generated from over 570 possible traits, including expressions, headwear, accessories, body and leg parts, fillings, specials, suprises and more. Every cube is gonzo, but some are more gonzo than others.

Owning a cube gives you an unprecedented advantage and exclusive access to a growing number of members-only benefits.

They’re cute, kind of gritty, pretty twisted, not afraid to get nasty, and always up for gonzo challenges. Gonzo Cubes are tough little nuggets and ready to jump into our first play to earn game launching in the Gonzopolis metaverse, Gonzo Fight Club (Q2/2023). Battle other cubes for dominance, rule the scoreboard and leave with the biggest stake!

Gonzo Cubes are built to serve community, gaming and utility oriented projects. We want all Gonzo Cube holders to have access to exclusive benefits that are rewarding and fun and that’s why we’re bringing our best ideas to the table when it comes to growing our ecosystem and elevating our community.

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Architecture

  • Wichita Mobile Clinic

    anadarko, oklahoma

  • SA Architects

    cranston, rhode island

  • OKC Greenhouse

    oklahoma city, oklahoma

  • Pawtucket Day Nursery

    pawtucket, rhode island

  • Meeting Street Center for Excellence

    providence, rhode island

  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

  • National Institute of Flamenco

    old town plaza, santa fe, new mexico

  • Corrales Comunity Pathway + Pedestrian Park

    corrales, new mexico

  • CRCUIT

    albuquerque, new mexico

  • The Construction of Art

    providence, rhode island

  • Santa Fe Univeristy School of Fine Arts

    Santa Fe, New Mexico

Design + Fabrication

  • Flatpack Foldable Structural Connections

    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

    Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Carbon Fiber Connections

    grasshopper, rhino, pla, carbon fiber

  • Acoustic Diffusion Panel

    grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

  • Hyperbolic Bending

    grasshopper, rhino, laser cut acrylic, bristol board

  • Filtration : Infiltration

    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

  • Recursive Paneling

    laser cut mylar

  • Sweet Crude

    python, c#, grasshopper, wood, plasti-dip, carbon, gelatin

  • Ruling Lines

    laser cut cell cast acrylic, stainless steel braided wire

  • Volumetric Aggregations

    processing, grasshopper, rhino, cast acrylic, black walnut, hickory

  • Cellulose Bookcase

    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

  • Asher Chair

    rhino, pla, birch plywood

  • Andraditic Mass

    arduino, firefly, rhino, 3d printed pla, baltic birch plywood

  • Cholla

    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

  • Folding Attractors

    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

  • Grain Chair

    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

  • Tracking Parallelograms

    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

  • Infiltration Table

    processing, spalted birch plywood, poplar, enamel, lacquer

Art + Code

  • Prairie Fire

    acrylic, ink, plywood

  • Dixieland Death Cult

    acrylic, plywood

  • Approximation of a Generation

    private tremendous

  • Elemental Worlds

    science museum oklahoma

  • Gonzo Cubes

    solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • A Line of Force

    arduino, grasshopper, firefly, java, plywood

  • The Drift

    html, css, javascript

  • Gear Institute

    illustrator, photoshop, php, css, html

  • Prism

    unity, c#, spine2d, illustrator

  • Squall

    petroglyphs national monument, albuquerque, new mexico

  • Galileo’s World Interactive

    c#, unity3d, illustrator, photoshop

  • Steel + Light

    convergence arts festival masterworks project, providence, rhode island

  • The God of Skiing

    book design

© [wpsos_year] Ken Marold USA, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Filtration : Infiltration

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Filtration : Infiltration

python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

status : complete

This project examines the history of oil extraction in the state of Oklahoma through the expression of a physical form that directly represents energy expansion across the state through years of incessant growth starting in 1945 and continuing to the present.

Driven by python coding and data fabrication research, this piece in envisioned to exist as a physical installation with specific functional and aesthetic properties. Internally a substrate is formed (gallery images in red) through the connections of drilling locations and their respective operators over time. The outer form emerges by following the outermost drilling locations across the state. This two part system forms an elongated tube-like shell that encases a matrix of interwoven, entangled lines.

Culturally this piece is designed to incite a dialogue and increase community awareness around groundwater infiltration, contamination and the danger of over consumption and unchecked growth.

Aesthetically, a grotesque form emerges from the pure drilling data – a sinuous extrusion of tangled connections and a tense, stretched shell opens to its own future timeline with a gaping maw.

Functionally the goal of this piece is to act as a filtration mechanism. The large surface area created throughout the internal matrix and the long vertical solar absorptive outer shell (pipe) will move polluted air using simple convection from the bottom through the internal filtration matrix and out of the top. The main objective of the piece is to collect pollution particulates upon the surfaces of the inner matrix and hold these particles until a rain event, whereby the toxic particles are then washed through the object’s reverse timeline to infiltrate to the bottom of the piece, leaving an ever darkening and deepening stain upon and into the earth below.

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Architecture

  • Wichita Mobile Clinic

    anadarko, oklahoma

  • SA Architects

    cranston, rhode island

  • OKC Greenhouse

    oklahoma city, oklahoma

  • Pawtucket Day Nursery

    pawtucket, rhode island

  • Meeting Street Center for Excellence

    providence, rhode island

  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

  • National Institute of Flamenco

    old town plaza, santa fe, new mexico

  • Corrales Comunity Pathway + Pedestrian Park

    corrales, new mexico

  • CRCUIT

    albuquerque, new mexico

  • The Construction of Art

    providence, rhode island

  • Santa Fe Univeristy School of Fine Arts

    Santa Fe, New Mexico

Design + Fabrication

  • Flatpack Foldable Structural Connections

    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

    Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Carbon Fiber Connections

    grasshopper, rhino, pla, carbon fiber

  • Acoustic Diffusion Panel

    grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

  • Hyperbolic Bending

    grasshopper, rhino, laser cut acrylic, bristol board

  • Filtration : Infiltration

    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

  • Recursive Paneling

    laser cut mylar

  • Sweet Crude

    python, c#, grasshopper, wood, plasti-dip, carbon, gelatin

  • Ruling Lines

    laser cut cell cast acrylic, stainless steel braided wire

  • Volumetric Aggregations

    processing, grasshopper, rhino, cast acrylic, black walnut, hickory

  • Cellulose Bookcase

    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

  • Asher Chair

    rhino, pla, birch plywood

  • Andraditic Mass

    arduino, firefly, rhino, 3d printed pla, baltic birch plywood

  • Cholla

    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

  • Folding Attractors

    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

  • Grain Chair

    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

  • Tracking Parallelograms

    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

  • Infiltration Table

    processing, spalted birch plywood, poplar, enamel, lacquer

Art + Code

  • Prairie Fire

    acrylic, ink, plywood

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Dixieland Death Cult

    acrylic, plywood

  • Approximation of a Generation

    private tremendous

  • Elemental Worlds

    science museum oklahoma

  • Gonzo Cubes

    solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

  • A Line of Force

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  • The Drift

    html, css, javascript

  • Gear Institute

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  • Galileo’s World Interactive

    c#, unity3d, illustrator, photoshop

  • Steel + Light

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  • The God of Skiing

    book design

© [wpsos_year] Ken Marold USA, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Gear Institute

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Gear Institute

illustrator, photoshop, php, css, html

status : complete

Outdoor Gear + Adventure Website and Mobile App. Gear Institute was founded in 2012 on the idea that  outdoor enthusiasts deserved a better tool to help them buy the best outdoor gear for them.

Outdoor gear is expensive. The technologies are complicated. And the marketing spin is laid on thick. In many cases, the right gear can make for a comfortable, safe experience or a miserable, dangerous one. You should not have to parse page upon page of marketing fluff and reviews by amateur “gear reviewers” to help you find affordable gear you can rely on.

Gear Institute is a network of the best outdoor gear testers in America, dedicated to providing the most credible, objective, and helpful reviews and buying advice you can find on the web. Guides, veteran product testers, and top-level outdoor athletes put each product through extensive field testing against comparable products to provide you with clear, trustworthy, consumer-friendly comparisons of high-performance outdoor gear.

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Architecture

  • Wichita Mobile Clinic

    anadarko, oklahoma

  • SA Architects

    cranston, rhode island

  • OKC Greenhouse

    oklahoma city, oklahoma

  • Pawtucket Day Nursery

    pawtucket, rhode island

  • Meeting Street Center for Excellence

    providence, rhode island

  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

  • National Institute of Flamenco

    old town plaza, santa fe, new mexico

  • Corrales Comunity Pathway + Pedestrian Park

    corrales, new mexico

  • CRCUIT

    albuquerque, new mexico

  • The Construction of Art

    providence, rhode island

  • Santa Fe Univeristy School of Fine Arts

    Santa Fe, New Mexico

Design + Fabrication

  • Flatpack Foldable Structural Connections

    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

    Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Carbon Fiber Connections

    grasshopper, rhino, pla, carbon fiber

  • Acoustic Diffusion Panel

    grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

  • Hyperbolic Bending

    grasshopper, rhino, laser cut acrylic, bristol board

  • Filtration : Infiltration

    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

  • Recursive Paneling

    laser cut mylar

  • Sweet Crude

    python, c#, grasshopper, wood, plasti-dip, carbon, gelatin

  • Ruling Lines

    laser cut cell cast acrylic, stainless steel braided wire

  • Volumetric Aggregations

    processing, grasshopper, rhino, cast acrylic, black walnut, hickory

  • Cellulose Bookcase

    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

  • Asher Chair

    rhino, pla, birch plywood

  • Andraditic Mass

    arduino, firefly, rhino, 3d printed pla, baltic birch plywood

  • Cholla

    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

  • Folding Attractors

    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

  • Grain Chair

    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

  • Tracking Parallelograms

    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

  • Infiltration Table

    processing, spalted birch plywood, poplar, enamel, lacquer

Art + Code

  • Prairie Fire

    acrylic, ink, plywood

  • Dixieland Death Cult

    acrylic, plywood

  • Approximation of a Generation

    private tremendous

  • Elemental Worlds

    science museum oklahoma

  • Gonzo Cubes

    solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • A Line of Force

    arduino, grasshopper, firefly, java, plywood

  • The Drift

    html, css, javascript

  • Gear Institute

    illustrator, photoshop, php, css, html

  • Prism

    unity, c#, spine2d, illustrator

  • Squall

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  • Galileo’s World Interactive

    c#, unity3d, illustrator, photoshop

  • Steel + Light

    convergence arts festival masterworks project, providence, rhode island

  • The God of Skiing

    book design

© [wpsos_year] Ken Marold USA, Inc. All rights reserved.

Continue reading

Cellulose Bookcase

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Cellulose Bookcase

pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

This shelving system was created to explore the cellular alignment found in wood and plants. The shelving and sides are made of yellow pine, black walnut, and compressed wood fiber board. All of these components represent the cellular walls of of wood.

The voids, typically filled with water at a cellular level are replaced at a macro level with man-made refined cellulose — books. The pine shelf ends are oriented to expose the end grain thereby developing a dialogue between it and the highly magnified graphical representation of offsetting and volumetric variability that is present but imperceptible in the yellow pine to the naked eye.

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Architecture

  • Wichita Mobile Clinic

    anadarko, oklahoma

  • SA Architects

    cranston, rhode island

  • OKC Greenhouse

    oklahoma city, oklahoma

  • Pawtucket Day Nursery

    pawtucket, rhode island

  • Meeting Street Center for Excellence

    providence, rhode island

  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

  • National Institute of Flamenco

    old town plaza, santa fe, new mexico

  • Corrales Comunity Pathway + Pedestrian Park

    corrales, new mexico

  • CRCUIT

    albuquerque, new mexico

  • The Construction of Art

    providence, rhode island

  • Santa Fe Univeristy School of Fine Arts

    Santa Fe, New Mexico

Design + Fabrication

  • Flatpack Foldable Structural Connections

    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

    Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Carbon Fiber Connections

    grasshopper, rhino, pla, carbon fiber

  • Acoustic Diffusion Panel

    grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

  • Hyperbolic Bending

    grasshopper, rhino, laser cut acrylic, bristol board

  • Filtration : Infiltration

    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

  • Recursive Paneling

    laser cut mylar

  • Sweet Crude

    python, c#, grasshopper, wood, plasti-dip, carbon, gelatin

  • Ruling Lines

    laser cut cell cast acrylic, stainless steel braided wire

  • Volumetric Aggregations

    processing, grasshopper, rhino, cast acrylic, black walnut, hickory

  • Cellulose Bookcase

    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

  • Asher Chair

    rhino, pla, birch plywood

  • Andraditic Mass

    arduino, firefly, rhino, 3d printed pla, baltic birch plywood

  • Cholla

    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

  • Folding Attractors

    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

  • Grain Chair

    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

  • Tracking Parallelograms

    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

  • Infiltration Table

    processing, spalted birch plywood, poplar, enamel, lacquer

Art + Code

  • Prairie Fire

    acrylic, ink, plywood

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Dixieland Death Cult

    acrylic, plywood

  • Approximation of a Generation

    private tremendous

  • Elemental Worlds

    science museum oklahoma

  • Gonzo Cubes

    solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

  • A Line of Force

    arduino, grasshopper, firefly, java, plywood

  • The Drift

    html, css, javascript

  • Gear Institute

    illustrator, photoshop, php, css, html

  • Prism

    unity, c#, spine2d, illustrator

  • Squall

    petroglyphs national monument, albuquerque, new mexico

  • Galileo’s World Interactive

    c#, unity3d, illustrator, photoshop

  • Steel + Light

    convergence arts festival masterworks project, providence, rhode island

  • The God of Skiing

    book design

© [wpsos_year] Ken Marold USA, Inc. All rights reserved.

Continue reading

The Drift

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The Drift

html, css, javascript

status : on-going

A drift, or dérive is an unplanned journey through a landscape, on which the subtle aesthetic geographic contours subconsciously direct a traveller, with the ultimate goal of creating an entirely new and authentic experience.

I developed this app as tool to encourage new ways of seeing our environment and to support courses dealing with web interactivity in order to engage students in developing photographic series of work that they may incorporate into their interactive web art – to act as a catalyst to develop new creative trajectories.

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Architecture

  • Wichita Mobile Clinic

    anadarko, oklahoma

  • SA Architects

    cranston, rhode island

  • OKC Greenhouse

    oklahoma city, oklahoma

  • Pawtucket Day Nursery

    pawtucket, rhode island

  • Meeting Street Center for Excellence

    providence, rhode island

  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

  • National Institute of Flamenco

    old town plaza, santa fe, new mexico

  • Corrales Comunity Pathway + Pedestrian Park

    corrales, new mexico

  • CRCUIT

    albuquerque, new mexico

  • The Construction of Art

    providence, rhode island

  • Santa Fe Univeristy School of Fine Arts

    Santa Fe, New Mexico

Design + Fabrication

  • Flatpack Foldable Structural Connections

    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

    Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Carbon Fiber Connections

    grasshopper, rhino, pla, carbon fiber

  • Acoustic Diffusion Panel

    grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

  • Hyperbolic Bending

    grasshopper, rhino, laser cut acrylic, bristol board

  • Filtration : Infiltration

    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

  • Recursive Paneling

    laser cut mylar

  • Sweet Crude

    python, c#, grasshopper, wood, plasti-dip, carbon, gelatin

  • Ruling Lines

    laser cut cell cast acrylic, stainless steel braided wire

  • Volumetric Aggregations

    processing, grasshopper, rhino, cast acrylic, black walnut, hickory

  • Cellulose Bookcase

    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

  • Asher Chair

    rhino, pla, birch plywood

  • Andraditic Mass

    arduino, firefly, rhino, 3d printed pla, baltic birch plywood

  • Cholla

    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

  • Folding Attractors

    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

  • Grain Chair

    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

  • Tracking Parallelograms

    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

  • Infiltration Table

    processing, spalted birch plywood, poplar, enamel, lacquer

Art + Code

  • Prairie Fire

    acrylic, ink, plywood

  • Dixieland Death Cult

    acrylic, plywood

  • Approximation of a Generation

    private tremendous

  • Elemental Worlds

    science museum oklahoma

  • Gonzo Cubes

    solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • A Line of Force

    arduino, grasshopper, firefly, java, plywood

  • The Drift

    html, css, javascript

  • Gear Institute

    illustrator, photoshop, php, css, html

  • Prism

    unity, c#, spine2d, illustrator

  • Squall

    petroglyphs national monument, albuquerque, new mexico

  • Galileo’s World Interactive

    c#, unity3d, illustrator, photoshop

  • Steel + Light

    convergence arts festival masterworks project, providence, rhode island

  • The God of Skiing

    book design

© [wpsos_year] Ken Marold USA, Inc. All rights reserved.

Continue reading

Hyperbolic Bending

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Hyperbolic Bending

grasshopper, rhino, laser cut acrylic, bristol board

status : complete

Most flat sheet materials, such as wood, metal, and plastic used for architectural construction, are inextensible. This means that they cannot be stretched to make surfaces that have compound curvature. In order to use them to make “compound curved” surfaces, we need to create a series of flat patterns that can be assembled into a visual approximation. A surface that can be reduced to a flat pattern without being distorted is called developable.

The process of translating a compound curved geometry into pieces that can be developed is called rationalization.

In Rhino, create a surface that has significant compound curvature. Break the surface down into pieces that can be rebuilt as developable surfaces. Laser cut and assemble the pieces from white card stock or Bristol board.

• How close can you get the form of the physical artifact to the original digital geometry?
• How many, or few, individual components are required?
• Does the deconstruction need higher discretization at areas of greater curvature?
• How minimal can the boundary supports be to keep it in position?
• What is the best way to join the edges of each piece?

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  • Wichita Mobile Clinic

    anadarko, oklahoma

  • SA Architects

    cranston, rhode island

  • OKC Greenhouse

    oklahoma city, oklahoma

  • Pawtucket Day Nursery

    pawtucket, rhode island

  • Meeting Street Center for Excellence

    providence, rhode island

  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

  • National Institute of Flamenco

    old town plaza, santa fe, new mexico

  • Corrales Comunity Pathway + Pedestrian Park

    corrales, new mexico

  • CRCUIT

    albuquerque, new mexico

  • The Construction of Art

    providence, rhode island

  • Santa Fe Univeristy School of Fine Arts

    Santa Fe, New Mexico

Design + Fabrication

  • Flatpack Foldable Structural Connections

    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

    Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Carbon Fiber Connections

    grasshopper, rhino, pla, carbon fiber

  • Acoustic Diffusion Panel

    grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

  • Hyperbolic Bending

    grasshopper, rhino, laser cut acrylic, bristol board

  • Filtration : Infiltration

    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

  • Recursive Paneling

    laser cut mylar

  • Sweet Crude

    python, c#, grasshopper, wood, plasti-dip, carbon, gelatin

  • Ruling Lines

    laser cut cell cast acrylic, stainless steel braided wire

  • Volumetric Aggregations

    processing, grasshopper, rhino, cast acrylic, black walnut, hickory

  • Cellulose Bookcase

    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

  • Asher Chair

    rhino, pla, birch plywood

  • Andraditic Mass

    arduino, firefly, rhino, 3d printed pla, baltic birch plywood

  • Cholla

    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

  • Folding Attractors

    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

  • Grain Chair

    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

  • Tracking Parallelograms

    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

  • Infiltration Table

    processing, spalted birch plywood, poplar, enamel, lacquer

Art + Code

  • Prairie Fire

    acrylic, ink, plywood

  • Surface Flux

    python, c#, grasshopper, pla, wood, steel

  • Dixieland Death Cult

    acrylic, plywood

  • Approximation of a Generation

    private tremendous

  • Elemental Worlds

    science museum oklahoma

  • Gonzo Cubes

    solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

  • A Line of Force

    arduino, grasshopper, firefly, java, plywood

  • The Drift

    html, css, javascript

  • Gear Institute

    illustrator, photoshop, php, css, html

  • Prism

    unity, c#, spine2d, illustrator

  • Squall

    petroglyphs national monument, albuquerque, new mexico

  • Galileo’s World Interactive

    c#, unity3d, illustrator, photoshop

  • Steel + Light

    convergence arts festival masterworks project, providence, rhode island

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Randomized Apertures

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Acoustic Diffusion Panel

grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

status : on-going

Diffusion is a popular, effective solution used in professional recording studios, listening rooms, and large auditoriums. Absorption panels can control these problems as well, but can sometimes cause dead sound if too much absorption is used in the small room. Diffusion on the other hand, adds a sense of spaciousness and retains the room’s natural ambiance.

This three-dimensional sound diffusion panel prototype is designed for installation into sound recording spaces or other areas  with acoustical control needs. Using a 7×10 grid array distributed across a 1 foot x 2 foot panel, each element or single ‘pixel’ within the array undergoes a series of modulations in their normal angle, extrusion height and side angles, and central void spaces.

Through these unique modulations per pixel, the panel provides excellent multi-reflection on both vertical and horizontal planes in sound critical spaces. It performs on mid and high frequencies, brightening and clarifying sound and is designed to evenly scatter sound energy and help eliminate comb filtering and flutter echo, acoustical problems that can seriously affect the clarity of sound in a room.

The prototype was parametrically generated through a custom written acoustic form finding algorithm using Rhino3D and Grasshopper. This algorithm allowed for unlimited visual iterations while performing optimization and energy calculation to determine the performant characteristics of each pixel manipulation.

In the next stage of development a mass production strategy will be identified and surface material testing will begin.

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Prairie Fire

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In Dixieland Death Cult, I wanted to capture the feverish spectacle of a society in decay. The painting grew out of the feeling that politics has become a theater of cruelty, where rage and fear masquerade as conviction. It is a portrait of moral collapse disguised as patriotic fervor, a vision of a culture circling itself in celebration of its own destruction. The figures twist and rot, their gestures both triumphant and hollow, their energy feeding on entropy. What begins as a ritual of belonging turns into a ceremony of erasure, a grotesque parade where empathy is the first casualty.

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