Research on the Object on GD
Application in Furnature-Designing Area
by Liu Zhaoxi
Tongji University,Shanghai,China
Abstract:
As the
progress of the science and technology, the places of people’s producing and
living tend more and more to be indoors, which makes people contact the
furniture more and more frequently. Furniture are playing an important role in
people’s daily life.
Generative
Design offers a new way for designing. Through this way, we can easily resolve
those problems of large quantity or complicate process, what’s more, we may
draw out absolutely new results that cannot be find by the old common ways. We
transplant this method into furniture-designing area to give the furniture
creation a new angle of vision.
In this
article we propedeuticly approached the GD application in furniture-designing
area, taking the Ming-dynasty style chair for example.
Backgroud: As the progress of the science and
technology, the places of people’s producing and living tend more and more to
be indoors, which makes people contact the furniture more and more frequently.
Furniture are playing an important role in people’s daily life. Excellent
furniture design become one of the important ways to prove the living level of their daily life. A perfect furniture design
will meet not only the needs of using function and comfortableness, but also
the needs of transporting aesthetic pleasure and cultural experience.
therefore, the designers are faced with a significant task: how to inherit the
merits of traditional furnitures and reconstract them to make them fit the
modern style life .
GA design method gives a new angle of vision
to furniture creation .
Progress to know
about GD:
To transplant
GA into furniture-designing area, we must know what is GA ,what is its specialty
and advantage.
First, what’s GD. GD , for short ,
is the way that the computer generates
numerous defferent results by re-organize
the genes according to certain rules.
Second,
the effect and value of GD. GD has
advantage on solving such problems like:
quantity problem, complicate
problem, creating problem and so on.
Third, the mode of generating .
It commonly includes gene's
recombination, imitation and growth.
Research
on GD application in furniture -designing area(taking ming dynasty -style chair
for example)
Ming dynasty -style
furtifure is a most typical style in chinese traditional furniture history,
which reached a very high level in
techinics and arts.
Fisrt,
study the character of ming dynasty-style
chair, including its shape, element,construction and material, then draw
out the genes. We take the elements and construction studying as our first
step.
Mming dynasty-style chair has varieties in concrete shapes, including
handrail-chair,collor-chair, meigui-chair and so on.Concerning the
construction, it is composed with support part,seating part,leaning-back
part,handrail part and other affiliated parts.Its joint is mortice.Concerning the materials, they
are always made up with hardwood such as pterocarpous wood,huali wood
,huangyang wood etc;sometimes fabrics can be seen ,mainly in bakcboard or
seating part,to make it more comfortable. Then we first pick out construction
as our studing emphasis.
Supporting part includes legs,treading board and joint stick;seating part is comparably simple, sometimes changing in materials;leaning-back part includes head and backboard; handrial part includes arm,goose-neck and assistant stick.
For
this step,the genes drawing is limited to prototype drawing, that is, to draw
out the existing parts of ming
dynasty-style chair and categorize
them. In the contimuing work, we will
draw out the essence ,that's to say, we will induce the conceptional genes of
every parts.
Second,
try it out through the way of gene’s
combination, imitation or growth according to certain rules.
Through
studing, we got the follwing stimulation factors for changing.
1. shape generating. A: retian the main outline while changing
concrete pattern such as pattern place or pattern form. (MAP 1~MAP2) B: retain the patterns while changing the
outline inchuding size and proportion.(MAP 3~MAP 4)
2.
congstruction generating. A: change the
constitution such as addition,
subtraction, reconstruction or recombination.(MAP 5) B: change the joint ways such as transplanting or recreating.(MAP
6)
3.
meterial generating. A: replace
meterial .(MAP 7) B: compound meterial.
We
began with the genes'
recombination.,choosing 3d max as our
software support. In future, we will congtinue the research about genes' imitation
and growth..
fisrstly,
we want to combine the prototype genes
at random. Now we simply devide the
whole chair into three parts: leaning-back,seating-part & handrial part.
Some kinds of these three parts will be recombined at random according to the
programme 1 that we have written. The results are very clear.
secondly,
basing on above step, we generate a
chair by controlling certain parameters, then change some comonds such as <taper><bend><stretch>in
the "modifier" of 3DMAX at
limited random. So we we get lots of
boeyond-imaging shapes ,and then we repeat the first step recombine them
at random. The course is shown in programme 2. Here follows some results.(MAP 8~MAP 9)
Long-term
research plan:
GD is a
monstrous project,were a very large researching
space can be found .After having a full
research on ming dynasty -style chair,
we will enlarge our research area to common chair or even to other furnitures.
Through changing the area, we may find more stimulative factors.
Reference:
1. www.generativeart.com
2. www.generativedesign.com
3. www.celestinosoddu.com
4. 《collection
of "lecong"-cup furniture design match》
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chinese forest-industry publishing house
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