Think outside what box?
This jitterbug is a bolted tensegrity. The term ‘tensegrity’ refers to the tensional integrity or interconnected nature of tension and compression that gives the structure it’s continuous elasticity. Translucent materiality allows for the cube to animate an optical illusion as it expands and contracts. This 4-dimensional object, a spiral hologram, is created by mirrored lines moving in opposing directions, symbolising a physical ‘event-horizon’. It is inspired by the quantum principle of non-locality i:e; what effects here effects there, from which, everywhere. Strength can be found through rigidity but also by a kinetic ability to sway and adapt.
Advanced Motion Geometries : Kinetics + Tensegrity + Interference
Presented below are newly discovered sets of 3-dimensional moire patterns that can be considered a novel class of multidimensional fractals.
Fuller’s iconic jitterbug inspired design scientists such as Joseph Clinton, Duncan Stewart and H.F Verheyen to create and classify a family of expanding-contracting structures, known as ‘dipolygonoids’. These handheld transformers delight through movement. Their regularity, symmetry, and binary alternating interconnectivity are fascinating nested alterations to regular Platonic and Archimedean solids. Furthermore, their rotational translation embeds them in one another. Kinetic art that requires handheld interactions allow for a more personal conceptual experience. Presented above is a set of graphic geometrical models that builds on their work with this in mind. I make novel explorations of analog illusion and moving-image techniques on these structures, considering materiality, transparency, and appropriate symbolism. Motion graphics here are inherent in the structures themselves, as opposed to being digital projections. Since dipolygonoids require time to expand and contract, they allow for any concept that takes place through time as ripe ground for visualisation, be it lunar and solar cycles, image sequences, or optical patterns. The viewer’s deliberate action allows for the potential animation to actuate. Using tools of radial and grid lines, dots, regular polygons, and cut out animation, I aim to simulate ideas such as the holographic principle, multidimensionality, synchronicity, converging moire, quasicrystal, and dot patterns, and the interconnectedness of atomic through universal scales of reality.