Hasta La Ideas

Last weekend, New York saw the opening of its first ever Museum of Math (MoMATH)—the first one in the States—which, for all its kid-friendly attractions, probably doesn’t delve into higher-order phenomena such as, say, Voronoi diagrams, in which a space is divided into cells that correspond to ‘seed’ points. Each regions are defined as being closer to a given seed point than any other, typically resulting in a pattern of abutting irregular polygons defined by a set of points within a given space, such that their vertices are equidistant from three (or more) points.

Confused? Alan Rorie has designed a software tool to make Voronoi diagrams… into furniture. The San Francisco-based artist/designer explains in his Kickstarter pitch, below:

It’s an interesting concept for generative furniture, allowing for a degree of creativity within the algorithmic constraints, but unfortunately, the extant Java app (demo’d in the video after the jump) wasn’t working so well for me… which is precisely why Rorie’s looking to develop a new version in Javascript. The funds from the Kickstarter go to that end, as well as physical refinements for the voronoidal shelves themselves.

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