Alec Singh – Digital Fabrication & Computational Design

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Capturing lightnings during yesterday's thundersto

Menger sponge shader in Blender. Continuing on $Menger sponge shader in Blender. Continuing on creating geometry with volume shaders. Again, no real geometry with exception of Blenders default cube and a plane in the background. This time it's the Menger sponge (stage M_7 with a total of 20^7 cubes = 1.280.000.000). The expression controlling the density distribution in space incorporates some case distinction. There are several ways to do this, I sticked with the modulo operation, the other one was a function: f(x) = cos(x)*cos(x/3). Rendering this will take some time, I heavily reduced the number of light ray bounces (1 for volume, 2 for transparency, rest 1). Memory usage on the other side is completely negligible (~1.5 MB). I rendered it as animation with animated seed and stacked the images in PS (12 frames @8 samples, res: 2160x2160, ~30 min/frame, rig: Ryzen7 3700X + GTX 1070, no denoising). Rendered in Blender3D/Cycles. -- #design #graphicdesign #parametricdesign #computationaldesign #geometry #geometric #math #mathematics #fractals #fractalsart #fractalgeometry #3dfractal #menger #mengersponge #procedural #pattern #grid #algorithm #3dmodeling #3dartwork #graphicdesign #blender #blender3d #blenderrender #blendercycles #cyclesrender #dailyrender #rendering #shader #digitalart #computergraphics$

Partial solar eclipse right now! Improvised qui

Gyroid Volume Shader in Blender. Doing some res $Gyroid Volume Shader in Blender. Doing some research on how to visualize voxel data with blender. I already did a tutorial on rendering the Mandelbulb (a complex 3d fractal) in Blender with volume shaders some while ago. The advantage of using shaders (and also disadvantage at the same time) is not to create real geometry, so there is no mesh, just a "carrier" for holding the material (like the sphere in the image). Basically the equation of the gyroid surface is controlling the density of a volume scatter node. In addition, the density is also used for the surface (Principled BSDF, the metallic contour). Since the setup is a material, you can apply it to any mesh object. Rendering will take some time though, the scattering of lightrays needs a lot of samples. I rendered it as animation with animated seed and stacked the images in PS (32 frames @64 samples, ~20 min/frame, rig: Ryzen7 3700X + GTX 1070, no denoising). Rendered in Blender3D/Cycles. -- #3dprinting #design #parametric #parametricdesign #computationaldesign #digitalfabrication #geometry #geometric #math #mathematics #minimalsurface #pattern #grid #algorithm #3dmodeling #3dartwork #graphicdesign #blender #blender3d #blendercommunity #blenderrender #blenderart #blendercycles #cyclesrender #dailyrender #rendering #shader #digitalart #computergraphics #structure$

Gare do Oriente (Lisbon Oriente Station) by Santia

Ascensor da Glória (The Glória Funicular), Lisbo

Borromean Möbius surface. Nice little exercise

Spatially interwoven hexagonal grid. Quick expe $Spatially interwoven hexagonal grid. Quick experiment with interwoven grids utilizing the new MultiPipe feature in Grasshopper (R7). With an even grid it feels like just scratching the surface. Shouldn't be difficult to add more complexity or even fractal substructures. Rendered in Blender3D/Cycles. -- #parametric #parametricdesign #computationaldesign #digitalfabrication #geometry #geometric #math #mathematics #pattern #grid #algorithm #hexagon #honeycomb #3dmodeling #3dartwork #graphicdesign #blender #blender3d #cyclesrender #dailyrender #rendering #digitalart #computergraphics #structure #rhino3d #rhinoceros3d #grasshopper3d #grasshopper #facade #architecture$

HyPar gridshell through active bending. The geo

"Neon lights Shimmering neon lights And at the f

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