Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes

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Inspired by cell division, Michael Hansmeyer writes algorithms that design outrageously fascinating shapes and forms with millions of facets. No person could draft them by hand, but they're buildable -- and they could revolutionize the way we think of architectural form.
Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer who explores the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural form. Full bio: www.ted.com/speakers/michael_h...
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  • @Omni315
    @Omni31512 жыл бұрын

    Very cool, still wouldn't mind knowing how you "fold" a cube

  • @mim073

    @mim073

    3 жыл бұрын

    3d softwares allow u to do this.... I'm learning but can't tell u the exact process yet sorry for replying so late btw

  • @blenderguy3250

    @blenderguy3250

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mim073 lol.. you are useless (after 9 years ahahahah)

  • @mim073

    @mim073

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@blenderguy3250 lmao...I guess so but it can happen is all I meant to say

  • @bhushanmuluk9408

    @bhushanmuluk9408

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mim073 WHICH SOFTWARE DO YOU USING FOR THIS

  • @mim073

    @mim073

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bhushanmuluk9408 any software, try using blender. It's free

  • @OliverYossif
    @OliverYossif12 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that was incredible. I was pretty impressed when he finally said that he'd managed to get them built.

  • @himarit1484
    @himarit14844 жыл бұрын

    As a student just started learning architect and digital modeling, what he shows really fascinate me for the possibility of using algorism. Technology can push ourselves beyond our creativity. The column he made is purely the product on algorism it is cool. On the other hand, I feel taste of culture, sth that people can resonate, provoke is an essential element in building our environment. I really wonder and curious about what we will have for the future architecture.

  • @ghostbuddy
    @ghostbuddy12 жыл бұрын

    These agorithms + 3d printers = amazing table top art

  • @MarkLucasProductions
    @MarkLucasProductions12 жыл бұрын

    TED is almost ALWAYS brilliant but this one was incredibly inspiring to me. Breathtaking.

  • @EclecticSceptic
    @EclecticSceptic12 жыл бұрын

    Exquisite! This is a trend becoming more prevalent as time goes on, acknowledging the limit of a human direct designer and instead emphasising designing the process.

  • @TroyOi
    @TroyOi11 жыл бұрын

    Wow, you put in words something that I only had a vague sense of, and could never have expressed myself. Thanks!

  • @sixpackspy
    @sixpackspy12 жыл бұрын

    accurate and beautifully said!

  • @PZenki
    @PZenki12 жыл бұрын

    Unreal and beautiful.

  • @TheGerogero
    @TheGerogero12 жыл бұрын

    Wishing the technology to physically manufacture these forms with much greater ease will come soon. Fascinating stuff.

  • @Hadewychable
    @Hadewychable12 жыл бұрын

    wow ! amazing algorithm technology by TED . Great job ;)

  • @happyandauthentic
    @happyandauthentic12 жыл бұрын

    That is incredibly amazing! Imagine PRINTING your own house!

  • @nikicool23
    @nikicool2311 жыл бұрын

    tht was superb...i don't know how gaudi did it during his time....the designs reminded me of his forms...

  • @Ieathal
    @Ieathal12 жыл бұрын

    That looks amazing.

  • @NthGold
    @NthGold10 ай бұрын

    Reminds me of the work of Gaudi. Perhaps these methods could even be used to help finish his works.

  • @mcozpda3392
    @mcozpda33928 жыл бұрын

    good explanation .... I like .... Within the imagination it is to take all the elements for development ........

  • @benbennit
    @benbennit11 жыл бұрын

    A pure reflection of the underlying replication code of the universe. The universe is hardwired for this structuring and replication. From simplicity comes complexity. Just amazing.

  • @CariagaXIII
    @CariagaXIII10 жыл бұрын

    the cylinder input looks badass

  • @stevenschwarz7134
    @stevenschwarz71349 жыл бұрын

    i have a very interesting drawing based on the symetrry of the square making a strange fractal shape

  • @arejays6701
    @arejays67017 жыл бұрын

    good forms but i think the symmetry makes them static, almost as if to say theyve hit the uncanny valley of forms, parametric-ism however gives a more natural (nature like) appeal to forms .

  • @ImaginationBubble
    @ImaginationBubble11 жыл бұрын

    when i see vid's like this i remember that the slogan of ted is " spread the idea " :D

  • @dododouglas7980
    @dododouglas79806 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful really

  • @WhitentonMike
    @WhitentonMike12 жыл бұрын

    I love the whole idea. ABS seems like the only practical material at the moment for 3D printing. At least that way it can be cleaned easily. Dusting the paper ones would be next to impossible.

  • @qedqubit
    @qedqubit6 жыл бұрын

    this can be done easily in Blender 3D software : add a bevel modifyer on the cube, then a wireframe; make it fatter, add a wireframe modifyer again, a subsurf , and a displacement. Tadaah ! you can make wild symmetric geometry in a few seconds !

  • @diegofnu
    @diegofnu11 жыл бұрын

    Your own questions have the potencial of answering themselves. Increased strenght with a tiny fraction of the material, Improved absortion, light absortion and conduction, embedded air cooling, extraction, etc... There is still a long way to go in development. Function following form is a very common thing in sience history.

  • @Zoza15
    @Zoza1511 жыл бұрын

    This man has a great imagination of architecture.. Wish him all the luck with his project :)

  • @j4y88
    @j4y8812 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful..

  • @rj-dc9jq
    @rj-dc9jq4 жыл бұрын

    First of all i want to say your voice is god level soothing for me

  • @IndieWide
    @IndieWide12 жыл бұрын

    im not an Indonesian guy, but in Indonesia, these sculptures can be hand-made carved in stones each and every small details of it. I've been once in Bali and i was just amazed by their detail stones walls and carvings. and they don't use 3d noise plugin. :D

  • @Waranoa
    @Waranoa12 жыл бұрын

    I don't know how original these ideas are, but it's a very illustrative example of the power of simple rules producing complex systems.

  • @jacobeason1363
    @jacobeason13633 жыл бұрын

    oooooh yeah. Love this stuff!

  • @finderfinder100
    @finderfinder10012 жыл бұрын

    This is the wonderful successor to Gaudi, HR. Giger, Dali, Escher,and Buckminster Fuller (and many other artists). This is their wildest dreams mixed with organic growth & algorithmic science made real.

  • @visamap
    @visamap2 жыл бұрын

    Thank u all very much

  • @RafaelMirandaMolina
    @RafaelMirandaMolina12 жыл бұрын

    Amazing, i've been teaching a generative arte course for 15 year old kids, and so many of what i've learned is embeded in what you say in this talk, so i wonder Could this be some kind of generative architecture?

  • @kittenmittenkitten
    @kittenmittenkitten12 жыл бұрын

    The best art is unsettling.

  • @goGREED
    @goGREED11 жыл бұрын

    woowee! can't wait to clean them columns

  • @ElSWVisitor
    @ElSWVisitor12 жыл бұрын

    I love you TED :-)

  • @MonkeyRecords
    @MonkeyRecords12 жыл бұрын

    beautiful

  • @TheFounderUtopia
    @TheFounderUtopia12 жыл бұрын

    Very clever idea. I tip my hat to you sir.

  • @anikyt7570
    @anikyt757011 жыл бұрын

    Yes fractal concepts are there... But experimenting and bringing that into reality is an amazing progression...with 3D printing, flying robots innumerable possibilities...

  • @srgwarcock
    @srgwarcock12 жыл бұрын

    These structures are beautiful, like something you could only conceive in a dream. Id love to live in a world surrounded by architecture that would make our modern cities look like stone age technology

  • @chillshaily1
    @chillshaily112 жыл бұрын

    brilliant

  • @premed2
    @premed212 жыл бұрын

    It's so baroque baby! Reminds me of the image of a fly as visualized by an electron microscope. This is the stuff from which nightmares unfold.

  • @Spicystachegamer
    @Spicystachegamer3 жыл бұрын

    This.... this is creativity

  • @JasonChanH
    @JasonChanH12 жыл бұрын

    indeed. but i wouldn't be surprised if the texture is partially generated. as hansmeyer mentioned, there is still a lot of tweeking required to create cool visuals as opposed to the 99% noise. terrains, for example, are mostly generated in the digital world now (like Avatar's landscape, which is made with Vue)

  • @srgwarcock
    @srgwarcock12 жыл бұрын

    Think about the Locus hives from gears of war 2, thats what the columns reminded me of

  • @luticia
    @luticia12 жыл бұрын

    Good answer ;-)

  • @vinayseth1114
    @vinayseth11146 жыл бұрын

    They look perfect for the Chronicles of Ridick universe!

  • @s..1087
    @s..108710 жыл бұрын

    Hi guys, which software is used to do these miracles?

  • @paulinanowicka7230
    @paulinanowicka723010 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful shapes inspired by nature... here is the big issue with this effort to bring it to life - with the modern design's focus on bio-mimicry and on reducing waste in manufacturing processes, my question would be: How sustainable is this type of architecture? and is printing an entire model out of polymer plastic sustainable and responsible? How do 3D printers fit into the cradle to cradle design? Just curious if anyone has answers....

  • @yoelsanchez2590

    @yoelsanchez2590

    9 жыл бұрын

    Paulina Nowicka well the US Navy is attempting to build an entire 3D printed ship so....

  • @tafssjr9986

    @tafssjr9986

    6 жыл бұрын

    Art has a cost my friend, maybe time, money etc

  • @cybercephalopod3913

    @cybercephalopod3913

    6 жыл бұрын

    WELL, if you're trying to make organic shapes, you COULD just 'grow' these structures rather than build them. Of course, this would require some level of nanotechnology, but it's worth considering.

  • @lotanerve
    @lotanerve12 жыл бұрын

    At work we get plans from upstairs that fit perfect (on computer) .On the shop floor, not so much..

  • @freesk8
    @freesk812 жыл бұрын

    It makes sense that these shapes look organic. Organisms create themselves from their DNA using simple, repeated processes, just like the computer creates these shapes.

  • @Klarpimier
    @Klarpimier9 жыл бұрын

    Is there a way to do this in Blender? Can anyone tell me?

  • @stillpointx2623
    @stillpointx2623 Жыл бұрын

    Where can I download the algorithms?

  • @marcosmenescal2962
    @marcosmenescal29626 ай бұрын

    Impressive

  • @BIitzkrieg
    @BIitzkrieg12 жыл бұрын

    i want these columns so bad ;_;

  • @sworupbisural1602
    @sworupbisural16022 жыл бұрын

    now we can use VR to virtually jump inside this world

  • @WhitentonMike
    @WhitentonMike12 жыл бұрын

    Cylindrical video screens should make it possible to have the shapes rendered in real time. Then the columns could be changed between simple and complex as well as intricate color patterns or monochromatic etc. Interesting.

  • @guitargeek16
    @guitargeek1612 жыл бұрын

    this is so sick! :-D

  • @jacobeason1363
    @jacobeason13633 жыл бұрын

    I really want to be a parametric architect! I wonder what comes after parametric architecture? How long will I have to wait to find out?

  • @jagteshwardhillon3278
    @jagteshwardhillon327810 жыл бұрын

    What software did he use to create those forms?

  • @MadDeuceJuice

    @MadDeuceJuice

    7 жыл бұрын

    processing

  • @omidb67

    @omidb67

    6 жыл бұрын

    AutoCAD

  • @stinkleaf

    @stinkleaf

    6 жыл бұрын

    Or better yet. download Mandelbulb 3D fractal software and you can achieve the same type of forms.

  • @Noone-of-your-Business
    @Noone-of-your-Business7 жыл бұрын

    The process described is *not* inspired "by nature", but by *mathematics* . Maths is generally agreed *not* to be a natural science, but rather a human-created philosophical system of describing phenomenon, very few of which are directly transferrable to evolutionary shaped forms that can be observed in nature. One way or another, folding a cube is as highly an artificial a process as it gets. I have to agree with my pre-posters: This has little practical value, it is art of art's sake. Which is fine by me if I see it in a spiffy SciFi movie, but certainly not in the building I work in. And that's not even addressing sustainability.

  • @luxxeon3d

    @luxxeon3d

    6 жыл бұрын

    I agree perhaps about the sustainability and safety of certain structures created this way, but nature is mathematical. All living things and even the outer reaches of the galaxy are influenced by mathematical properties. The Fibonacci Sequence is clear and visible in nature from the golden spiral of a Nautilus shell to the logarithmic spiraling motion of the galaxies, nature and mathematics are very much in line with each other.

  • @vinayseth1114

    @vinayseth1114

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can find perfect cubes and spheres in nature under extreme conditions though.

  • @ASkippingRock
    @ASkippingRock12 жыл бұрын

    Inspired by cell division. Awesome. If only we could find ways to grow buildings.

  • @danilip8496
    @danilip849610 жыл бұрын

    COOL!

  • @andresbenito9735
    @andresbenito97356 жыл бұрын

    Unlike almost every TED speaker, I liked his voice trough the whole presentation. He would make a nice job working at movies. Peace

  • @buddhabrot
    @buddhabrot12 жыл бұрын

    Technology check, Entertainment nope, Design check. 2/3. Which is better than 90% of TED. Nice work :)

  • @dragonskulls1331
    @dragonskulls133112 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @zxp8272
    @zxp82726 жыл бұрын

    the thought is great! but i have a new idea, i think the most important thing is to create a method to construct these shapes(not using 3D printing but a method which is also compatible with your physical laws)

  • @GregCalleja

    @GregCalleja

    5 жыл бұрын

    Robotics

  • @GigaBoost
    @GigaBoost12 жыл бұрын

    Wait, uh, fractals are something new? Also, where can I get this software? I want to make some fractals.

  • @RolandAshcroft
    @RolandAshcroft6 жыл бұрын

    Why abs for huge columns ? I'd use a finer quality large scale printer that can extrude some kind of mix of cement and gypsum .

  • @Hardryv0
    @Hardryv012 жыл бұрын

    Awe-inspiring

  • @olekolok2739
    @olekolok27392 жыл бұрын

    Whats really interesting to me is the possibility of scaling this. At First, i thought this would be an amazing scifi City scape😱

  • @TroyOi
    @TroyOi11 жыл бұрын

    I recall when fractals were the big thing. They're very similar: fascinating, repetitive shapes with intricacies at all scales, all generated from relatively simple algorithms, and with proven examples in nature. What I don't recall were people running out and saying, "Hey, we gotta build stuff from this". OK, I've got an open mind... What's the big difference here?

  • @maggru91
    @maggru9112 жыл бұрын

    Interesting, not sure if I'd want to live with that sort of design. I prefer the minimalistic, these structures are just far to intricate for me to fully enjoy.

  • @livingsocks
    @livingsocks12 жыл бұрын

    The shapes remind me of viral capsules more than living forms.

  • @okhstorm
    @okhstorm6 жыл бұрын

    Trippy

  • @sverr0r
    @sverr0r11 жыл бұрын

    How do you dust them?

  • @SiddharthKulkarniN
    @SiddharthKulkarniN12 жыл бұрын

    He reminds me of Howard Roark.

  • @hawaiidispenser
    @hawaiidispenser12 жыл бұрын

    Kind of reminds me of that Alien artist... H R Geiger (I think)?

  • @GfcgamerOrgon
    @GfcgamerOrgon9 жыл бұрын

    NKS! Its like 3d NKS!

  • @billbillard7690
    @billbillard769012 жыл бұрын

    Streatched in my capacity to imagine new forms. A beautiful glimpse in God's design.

  • @thewinematcher
    @thewinematcher12 жыл бұрын

    WOW

  • @atlasinvestmentresearch5397
    @atlasinvestmentresearch5397 Жыл бұрын

    how about organism living structure. process to generate

  • @Kamikrazey
    @Kamikrazey12 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one thinking about the amazing power the computer must of had?

  • @CeruleanFilms
    @CeruleanFilms11 жыл бұрын

    So these are basically fractal patterns?

  • @ExclusiveManual
    @ExclusiveManual12 жыл бұрын

    imagine the number of polygons on a single column. most people would lag out.

  • @Kamikrazey
    @Kamikrazey12 жыл бұрын

    16 million facets it quite high, yes with decent cpu/gpu it is very possible, but it is much higher than an average computer, my schools graphics computers tend to crash at about 4 million facets

  • @JZGreenline
    @JZGreenline12 жыл бұрын

    Dam I love fractals! Fractal art in real world?... *dies from awesome* This is the niche of 3D printers. Creating objects of such detail that they would take a lifetime to produce in the physical world, but a computer could produce thousands... beautiful.

  • @devdesai411
    @devdesai4115 жыл бұрын

    Anyone knows how to code this on grasshopper ?

  • @luticia
    @luticia12 жыл бұрын

    I have difficulties to understand the meaning of this talk.

  • @srgwarcock
    @srgwarcock12 жыл бұрын

    But imagine a capitol city with sky scrapers and complexes that looked like these forms, it would be stunning, certainly it would make our cities look like they were from the stone age

  • @MadDeuceJuice
    @MadDeuceJuice11 жыл бұрын

    Neo Baroque. I don't like the way it looks but I want to learn the technique.

  • @wilikoki69
    @wilikoki6912 жыл бұрын

    I think Gaudi would have loved this program.

  • @RouteZeroDesign
    @RouteZeroDesign12 жыл бұрын

    Nothing quite like cleaning dirt out of a fractal.... They're interesting forms, but I personally find their structural qualities on a micro scale to be more interesting than their overall appearance.

  • @NycAttentionWhore
    @NycAttentionWhore8 жыл бұрын

    VIRTUAL REALITY!

  • @ybra
    @ybra12 жыл бұрын

    00:15

  • @cheetah219
    @cheetah21912 жыл бұрын

    early application for ANYTHING is always a grey area until years later when we look back and say "i dont know how i would live without that". do you really think when electricity was first being developed the average person thought a lightening bolt travelling down a kite would be what it is today? this is why noble prizes are typically given to discoveries that were made years ago--because the significance is not solidified until later.

  • @andrewc2768
    @andrewc276812 жыл бұрын

    Who would want to live with those complex structures in their house? It would feel like being inside an alien spaceship

  • @pitertitan3385
    @pitertitan33857 жыл бұрын

    как это воплотить??? У меня много идей, а реализация ?

  • @alifallah1419
    @alifallah14192 жыл бұрын

    👌

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