Folding Attractors

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Folding Attractors

grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

status : complete

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    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

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    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

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    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

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    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

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Tracking Parallelograms

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Tracking Parallelograms

grasshopper, rhino, hickory

status : complete

  • File_005 (1)
  • File_004 (1)
  • File_003 (2)
  • File_002 (2)

Process


  • File_000 (2)

  • File_001 (2)

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    pawtucket, rhode island

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  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

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

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    grasshopper, rhino, pla, carbon fiber

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    grasshopper, rhino, cnc, rigid insulation

  • Hyperbolic Bending

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    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

  • Recursive Paneling

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  • Sweet Crude

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

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  • Volumetric Aggregations

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    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

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    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

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Volumetric Aggregations

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Volumetric Aggregations

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

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Process


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  • File_003 (2)

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    pawtucket, rhode island

  • Meeting Street Center for Excellence

    providence, rhode island

  • Norterly Island Nature Center

    Chicago, Illinois

  • National Institute of Flamenco

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  • Corrales Comunity Pathway + Pedestrian Park

    corrales, new mexico

  • CRCUIT

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    Santa Fe, New Mexico

Design + Fabrication


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    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

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  • 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

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    python, grasshopper, rhino, 3d printing

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

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

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    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

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  • Andraditic Mass

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    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

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    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

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    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

  • Tracking Parallelograms

    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

  • Infiltration Table

    processing, spalted birch plywood, poplar, enamel, lacquer

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  • Surface Flux

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

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    science museum oklahoma

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    solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

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    arduino, grasshopper, firefly, java, plywood

  • The Drift

    html, css, javascript

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  • Prism

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Sweet Crude

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Sweet Crude

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

Examining 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. Each individual piece embodies a single operator’s oil extraction well locations.

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 folded connections results in an oily viscera — a timeline described through blackness, a vein of contamination and the corrupting, nocuous outcome of greed and over consumption.

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    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

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  • 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

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

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

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    rhino, pla, birch plywood

  • Andraditic Mass

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    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

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    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


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  • Surface Flux

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

  • Dixieland Death Cult

    acrylic, plywood

  • Approximation of a Generation

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  • Elemental Worlds

    science museum oklahoma

  • Gonzo Cubes

    solidity, html, css, javascript, illustrator

  • A Line of Force

    arduino, grasshopper, firefly, java, plywood

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  • Prism

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  • Galileo’s World Interactive

    c#, unity3d, illustrator, photoshop

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© [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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    rhino, grasshopper, mild steel

  • Renegades

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  • Surface Flux

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

  • Carbon Fiber Connections

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  • Hyperbolic Bending

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

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  • Volumetric Aggregations

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

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    pine, black walnut, compressed wood fiber board, stain

  • Asher Chair

    rhino, pla, birch plywood

  • Andraditic Mass

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    grasshopper, rhino, black walnut

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    grasshopper. rhino, white museum board

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    rhino, cnc milled birch plywood

  • Tracking Parallelograms

    grasshopper, rhino, hickory

  • Infiltration Table

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

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    acrylic, plywood

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    science museum oklahoma

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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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Process


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    pawtucket, rhode island

  • Meeting Street Center for Excellence

    providence, rhode island

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    Chicago, Illinois

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  • 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

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

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    laser cut cell cast acrylic, stainless steel braided wire

  • Volumetric Aggregations

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

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    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

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  • The Drift

    html, css, javascript

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  • Prism

    unity, c#, spine2d, illustrator

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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.

Continue reading