Gesture Map

This sculpture was the first large (~33x23x14cm) 3d printed form I ever made. It was created for the Gesture at Large conference and art show.

I was presenting a survey talk on the space of gesture technologies, so I made a concept map from my notes.

I mapped the concept graph into a 3D spring system then grew a structure around it with an implicit surface. A voronoi process then minimized material usage and revealed internal spaces.

The detail photo above was selected for use as the visual representation for 3D printing on the front page of the web site for the Digital Lab for Manufacturing, one of two national manufacturing hubs being created in the US.