METAMORPHOSIS
DESIGN CONCEPT
Abstracting biological organisms
This project is a study where the collective behaviour of cells generate intricate emergent forms.
The integration of computation and digital technology allows the process of abstraction of information from a material base, unfolding biological processes into informational patterns, redefining them as the constructed process and then articulating them in an innovative process of design and generation of a new digital object.
In this project, decontextualizing slime mold from its material body allowed me to develop a body of informationthat can be simulated and interacted with.
From abstraction of bio-morphism to complexities of emergence
Decontextualizing slime mold from its material body allowed me to develop a body of information that can be simulated and interacted with. These sets of simulated relationships have the capacity to generate biological forms.
(Left)slime mold living organism, (Middle) dematerialized informational patterns of slime mold -computational programming of Slime mold’s cellular algorithmic behaviour in Grasshopper, (Right) digital emergent forms generated from the simulation