generative design allows computers to play a part in the appearance of furniture – often to make the objects stronger and more functional, but sometimes to allow for unpredictability and complexity that would be otherwise difficult to achieve. these are some of the approaches being used to design furniture through generative algorithms:
Aseem Agarwala proposed a system to generate a chair based on the image of a person’s silhouette through deformable models – you can read about this approch in his undergraduate thesis.
swedish front design uses novel methods to generate furniture – from explosions and footsteps in the snow to the tracking of a fly’s path around a light bulb that was 3D printed to achieve the fly lamp (pictured) – via generator.x
kram and weisshar designed these breeding tables that are each generated uniquely by an algorithm that cuts the legs from randomly folded planes that are then cut from sheet steel, welded together and painted.
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