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IEEE Chapter, Berkeley, April 22, 2010

IEEE Chapter, Berkeley, April 22, 2010. Carlo H. Séquin CS Division, U.C. Berkeley. Naughty Knotty Sculptures. NOT This:. But This: Sculptures Made from Knots. Knots as constructive sculptural building blocks. Technical Designs ….

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IEEE Chapter, Berkeley, April 22, 2010

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  1. IEEE Chapter, Berkeley, April 22, 2010 Carlo H. Séquin CS Division, U.C. Berkeley • NaughtyKnotty Sculptures

  2. NOT This:

  3. But This: Sculptures Made from Knots • Knots as constructive sculptural building blocks.

  4. Technical Designs … CCD Camera, Bell Labs, 1973 Soda Hall, Berkeley, 1994 RISC chip, Berkeley, 1981 “Octa-Gear”, Berkeley, 2000

  5. Since 1994: Aesthetic Designs … • What is the role of the computer in: • aesthetic optimization, • the creative process ?

  6. Collaboration with Brent Collins “Hyperbolic Hexagon II”

  7. “Sculpture Generator I ” GUI

  8. Wesleyan College, Math Lounge

  9. Hyperbolic Hexagon II in a Movie

  10. Dr. Manhattan’s Apartment • 15 seconds of fame in The Watchmen

  11. Hyperbolic Hexagon II in CITRIS

  12. Math  Art Connection • When does a mathematical model become a piece of art ?

  13. Rapid Prototyping Model of the 24-Cell • Noticethe 3-foldpermutationof colorsMade on the Z-corp machine.

  14. 3 Hamiltonian Cycles on 4D Cross Polytope

  15. Hamiltonian Cycles on 4D Cross Polytope

  16. PART AKnots as Constructive Building Blocks

  17. Tetrahedral Trefoil Tangle (FDM)

  18. Tetra Trefoil Tangles • Simple linking (1) -- Complex linking (2) • {over-over-under-under} {over-under-over-under}

  19. Tetra Trefoil Tangle • Complex linking (two views)

  20. Platonic Trefoil Tangles • Take a Platonic polyhedron made from triangles, • Add a trefoil knot on every face, • Link with neighboring knots across shared edges.

  21. Icosahedral Trefoil Tangle • Simplest linking (type 1)

  22. Icosahedral Trefoil Tangle(type 3) • Doubly linked with each neighbor

  23. Arabic Icosahedron

  24. Dodecahedral Pentafoil Cluster

  25. Realization by ProMetal (Ex One Co.) • Metal sintering and infiltration process

  26. “The Beauty of Knots” More recently, I have been looking for sculptures where the whole piece is just a single knot. Make aesthetically pleasing artifacts! • Undergraduate research group in 2009

  27. Classical Knot Tables • Flat (2.5D), uninspiring, lack of symmetry …

  28. Knot 52

  29. Knot 61

  30. PART BComputer-Generated Knots Generate knots & increase their complexity in a structured, procedural way. Explore several different methods… • I.Bottom-up knot construction • II. Fusing simple knots together • III.Top-down mesh infilling • IV. Longitudinal knot splitting

  31. The 2D Hilbert Curve (1891) • A plane-filling Peano curve Do This In 3 D !

  32. “Hilbert” Curve in 3D (1999) Replaces an “elbow” • Start with Hamiltonian path on cube edges and recurse ...

  33. Jane Yen: “Hilbert Radiator Pipe” (2000) • Flaws( from a sculptor’s . point of view ): • 4 coplanar segments • Not a closed loop • Broken symmetry

  34. Metal Sculpture at SIGGRAPH 2006

  35. A Knot Theorist’s View Thus our construction element should use a “more knotted thing”: e.g. an overhand knot: It is still just the un-knot !

  36. Recursion Step • Replace every 90° turn with a knotted elbow.

  37. Also: Start from a True Knot • e.g., a “cubist” trefoil knot.

  38. Recursive Cubist Trefoil Knot

  39. A Knot Theorist’s View Thus our assembly step should cause a more serious entanglement: adjacent knots should entangle one another, or crossing strands should be knotted together . . . • This is just a compound-knot ! • It does not really lead to a complex knot !

  40. 2.5D Celtic Knots – Basic Step

  41. Celtic Knot – Denser Configuration

  42. Celtic Knot – Second Iteration

  43. Outline • I. Bottom-up knot construction • II.Fusing simple knots together • III.Top-down mesh infilling • IV. Longitudinal knot splitting

  44. Knot-Fusion • Combine 3 trefoils into a 9-crossing knot

  45. Sierpinski Trefoil Knot

  46. Close-up of Sierpinski Trefoil Knot

  47. 3rd Generation of Sierpinski Knot

  48. From Paintings to Sculptures • Do something like this in 3D ! • Perhaps using two knotted strands(like your shoe laces).

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