Hot Wire Cutting Robotic Fabrication

The goal of the project was to propose an immersive ceiling installation designed in collaboration with Al and meticulously fabricated with a state-of-the-art robotic hot-wire cutter.

The design concept was inspired by re-imagining Antoine Pevsner›s «Le Lis Noir>> and collaging its renderings, which acted as the style transfer image run through a convolutional neural network (CNN), with a microscopic image of bone used as the CNN input. The CNN output served as the basis for the ceiling design. The interpretation depicted a flowing foreground with soft, curvilinear tooling that was interrupted by a background of deep eddies with sharp tooling. 

In the prototype, an interactive lighting design was also imagined for the model, which was connected to a motion sensor coded by Arduino. 

Academic | Group work | 2022
Professor:  Andrew Saunders 

Group members: Aisha Alshehri, Adam Blood, Matt Ward, Hrishi Rajasekar