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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Let's materialise (2)


Afterthought. This amazing chair is actually called AI. Not the movie, no. Why AI? Because the design (surface, sotfness, comfort, ...) and the functionality (being able to support up to 120 kilos) is human. But it's the computer that finally designed the chair, or, to quote from the website:

Like the biological structure and mechanism of bone, the artificial intelligence software knows where to create sufficient support. The AI stool is an intelligent product that grows in free space with an artificial intelligence 'DNA' code. This code contains all of the information required to ensure that the object will transform perfectly from a virtual design into a 3D object that achieves the optimum strength or intelligent softness whilst maintaining the desired visual aesthetic.


Personally I think this is a little bit .... spooky. But hey, cool stuff, right?

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