Interactive PQ Mesh by Daniel Piker

This great piece of work is based on Kangaroo, a physics engine for grasshopper.The original video and a lot of more great stuff can be found on Danie Pikerl's vimeo account. The concept of circular and conical meshes is described in a paper written by H. Pottmann and J. Wallner.

The Honeycomb Vase

Honeycomb Vase, "Made by Bees", by Studio Libertiny.
Seen in the MoMA.

Rapid manufacturing is a process by which computer-controlled lasers solidify liquid or powdered resin to create a three-dimensional rendering of a digital design. By contrast, the Honeycomb Vase was produced through what the artist has called "slow manufacturing": Libertíny constructed a vase-shaped beehive scaffold (to be removed at the end of the process) and then let nature take its course. Forty thousand bees build the vase in one week.

Honeycomb like structure build by humans and machines has been studied by Andrew Kudless and by ILEK students.

Zamet Center

The Zamet Center in Rijeka, Croatia by 3LHD architects. A beautiful application of the cairo tiling. Thanks to Calgar for advising me of this project.

Cairo Attractor

A diamond grid locally distorted by a cairo attractor


The moving attractor

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Cairo Tiling

This pentagonal tesselationis called cairo tiling.

3D2REAL: A wall based on the cairo tesselation, designed and build by ILEK students.

Extension of the congress center Davos, currently under construction. The roof structure is based on the cairo tesselation. By Degelo Architekten, Engineer: Dr. Schwartz Consulting

The cairo pattern seems to be a blend of a diamond pattern and a chinese pattern.

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