Hat mich mein Blog mal so reich gemacht hat, dass ich mir eine Villa kaufen kann, lasse ich mir in die Eingangshalle von Michael Hansmeyer ein paar seiner Säulen aus 2700 Schichten Pappe bauen, deren Form er mit einen saukomplizierten Algorithmus berechnet. Die dorischen Polygonen-Monster sind so vertrackt, dass sämtliche 3D-Druckereien passen müssen und er die Dinger per Hand fertigt:
"Michael Hansmeyer uses algorithms invented by Pixar and painstaking handicraft to generate columns with dizzying detail. When people mistake photographs of your physical prototypes for computer renderings, you know you've achieved something amazing. That's exactly what happened when Michael Hansmeyer showed off his "computational architecture" column, created by iterating a subdivision algorithm over and over again and then fabricating it out of cardboard. Hansmeyer's column stands nine feet tall, weighs about 2000 pounds, and is made out of 2700 1mm-thin slices of cardboard stacked on top of wooden cores. It contains somewhere between 8 and 16 million polygonal faces..." The World's Most Complex Architecture: Cardboard Columns With 16 Million Facets(via Nerdcore)
