2D and 3D visualization of Lewis Carroll’s famous book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Poster > The full text of the book spans a scroll of paper, which drifts in air and casts shadow that corresponds to Alice’s height in context. The poster is an attempt to explore the tactile dimension of paper, and reveal the often ignored materiality of this media.
Inspired by Kumi Yamashita, I extruded the figure ground study to create shadow that resembles sihouette of Alice . Modelled in Solidworks. Fabricated with Zcorp 3D Plaster Powder Printer.
In a project to visualizing real-world information, I built a program that customizes curtain pattern to specific windows. A digital photo of window is imported into the software, and a virtual plant grows in reaction to the light. By adjusting the growth parameters, users would be able to customize their one-of-a-kind curtain pattern. The pattern is then exported as a vector image for laser cutting.
Virtual ivy grows on a photo of window
Various texture could be generated parametrically.
Developed in Processing, an opensource visually-oriented variant of Java.
Speaker interactively sculpts wire forms based on sound input. The user stands in front of the device and speaks into a small microphone. The device then begins to push and bend the wire into a simplified sound wave contour based on his/her utterance. Sounds are thus physically ‘encoded’ into the wire, creating a tangible manifestation of an intangible sound.
An Arduino micro-controller is embedded in the device to calculate a simplified contour from the recorded sound wave. Two motors are used to push and bend the metal wire into shape.
The device explores the immediacy of the fabrication process by linking an ephemeral passage of sound to a physical entity. It furthermore acts as a means for the spoken word to be transcribed into an artifact of meaning.
A pair of earrings constructed with the words ‘I love you’.
Speaker is one of our projects that explore interfaces and devices that take real-time input to fabricate physical form. Read more on InteractiveFabrication.com .
An experiment of generating organic kinetics using non-organic material, this piece uses Shape Memory Alloy to actuate wood and metal structures, which are laid out as insect collections.
Exhibited at Three River Arts Festival Gallery.
Subtle movements of specimens are randomly triggered by Arduino control board.
Testing Shape Memory Alloy > before and after current flows through
The annual Hybrid Formula SAE competition held each May at the New Hampshire International Speedway.
With technological challenges for students with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering, Formula Hybrid encourages interdisciplinary teamwork and innovation.
Bulldogs Racing Car hits the ground!
Nuckle design > Modeling and analyzing front nuckle in Solidworks and COSMOSMotion
The Human-Machine Interaction group at Yale has three rooms on different floors in the engineering building. We share the common frustration with teams that owe geographically separated space- where to find the team mate?
This led us to design a Spot Clock for our group.
Clock Hands > Each of the group members has one pointer designed and cut out with a laser cutter.
Servo Controller > Every five minutes, the clock reads schedules online, and update the position of pointers. Our next step is to link the clock with bluetooth device and update status in real time.
A clock, Map, and Prompt > The gentle noise of typing or chair moving in an office tellls a lot about one's status. The whisper of servos could hint similar information by moving in a certain pattern.
Collaboration with Ted Barnes
Visual Basic controlled servo motors
Robert Grober’s Sonic Golf translates the swing tempo of a golf club into rich sound. With the sonification, a golf player can improve the technique faster.
Can similar idea be used in multi-person task? Owing to computer music technology, the input interface of a piece of instrument can now be separated from the sound generator, which theoretically allows any form of input device. In the “Duet for Bicycles”, riders are turned into musical instrument players and try to harmonize.
With polysiloxane, artificial hair, and a Nissan V6 turbo 3000 engine, Wang Yinan (Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua Univ.) created this semi-organic engine.
Qi Ji (Engineering Physics, Tsinghua Univ.) and I embedded in it a sound controlled vibrator, giving the sculpture a slight tremble when audience walk close.
