Generative Structure

Des Des Res

Ongoing explorations into the generation of structure and its opposite.

Nicholas Desbiens

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Monogram pattern exploration

February, 2025

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Interior planter #2 installed

August, 2022

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A friendly blob

June, 2017

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It may not look like much now, but back in 2008, this video was kind of like a Meisterbrief for early investigations into coding and design. In the days before visual scripting interfaces (or even modern coding languages in Rhino), work like this was difficult and painstaking. Which is why it was such a pleasure working on it together with @fadometer whose deep research into design and textiles remains an inspiration.

December, 2008

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The final frame of this has been my desktop background for years.

July, 2017

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I fell in love with the German language a long time ago. One of the reasons is the vocabulary. Even the word “vocabulary” in German is “word treasure.” How good is that? And while the long German words can turn heads, I have a special fondness for the short ones.

February, 2018

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And for the nerds out there, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that the connections were made to work with standard #ikea pendants

September, 2017

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I really enjoy exploring growth in all its manifestations. I love how a few simple rules, repeated over time, can lead to unexpected complexity.

May, 2019

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Different starting conditions lead to different outcomes

May, 2019

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Some images of the lights as installed in our kitchen

September, 2017

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One of many #3dprinted lighting projects. This one happens to have a place of honor above our kitchen counter.

September, 2017

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Birthing images are usually most interesting to those directly involved, but for the sake of completeness, here’s a #timelapse

September, 2017

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I love rotational geometries. They’re like the best kind of simple magic trick. This animation shows the path of an oloid as it rolls down an inclined surface.

February, 2021

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September, 2019

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Sphere

February, 2021

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I love it when I’m surprised by these generative studies. This one starts as a simple exploration of lines and connections, but once you add line thickness as a variable, by about :04 the whole thing starts to look like a Keith Haring composition. Then the line thickness gets really fat and it becomes something else. So somewhere there exists an optimal arrangement of line thickness and spacing to achieve heightened Haringness. We’ll call that the Haring Zone.

April, 2017

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August, 2020

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Custom monogram for a friend’s upcoming Bar Mitzvah.

February, 2025

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Step 3: #3dprint geometry and catalog the results.

March, 2019

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A little digital chiseling

March, 2019

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Digital carving exercise

February, 2017

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#wip 100 topos. Inspired by @stoicrise and @house.of.sada

March, 2023

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The final installed piece has an understated presence that connects seamlessly to the stainless steel fixture and gently responds to the form of the globe-shaped lamp.

May, 2017

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Digital drift

February, 2016

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I love geometric constraints. This strange form is the result of needing to navigate the shape of an existing shelf, the outline of a standard planter, and the maximum build volume of my #3dprinter

August, 2022

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Step 2: Use the generative system to create an awful lot of geometry for #3dprinting

December, 2018

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Ok, even on an account full of strange things, this one may be particularly strange. This was part of an amazing collaboration with @kohnpedersenfox and @bostonvalleyterracotta during the Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop in 2019. The idea was to add a custom #3dprinted roller to the end of a standard die extrusion mechanism for a deeper exploration into the interaction of surface texture and glaze.

August, 2019

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Sup Syrup? That time I designed and #3dprinted a very special Christmas gift memorializing my daughter’s favorite catch phrase.

December, 2018

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A nice little amalgam

June, 2017

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So glad I had my handy first-generation smartphone on me to take this shaky video. The original brief was to create a stair that could stand as a sculpture amid a world-class collection of contemporary art. So it really should be experienced from all sides. Oh yeah, those beautiful full-height doors in the back were also designed and fabricated by @caliperstudio

May, 2009

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I honestly don’t really know where to begin with this project. It was one of the great joys of my life to be able to work on a design so passionately with a team of amazing people equally committed to stretching our comfort zone to make something great. @tycole already took the definitive pictures, but I have hard drives full of my own images that have special meaning to me. These decidedly unprofessional shots are from my first day visiting the fully assembled and finished stair after literally years, of dreaming, coding, modeling, tweaking, assembling, grinding, polishing and pushing. Over a decade later and I continue to be amazed by @caliperstudio and their ability to make great things.

May, 2009

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That time when @stoicrise and I had a lot of fun digitally exploring aeolian geomorphology

January, 2014

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Circles in circles

November, 2021

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The rollers themselves as #3dprinted sculptural objects were actually quite nice.

Special shout out to @darwindiaz_ny

August, 2019

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Turns out I was wrong the other day, these are the images that ended up on the @bcakeny

May, 2017

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Spherical meander

February, 2018

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Step 1: Figure out a generative system that allows for formal variation while allowing for fast, single-layer #3dprinting

December, 2018

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Oloid

January, 2021

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These are a few images from one of the most fun, challenging and overall weirdest periods of my life. For those of you who didn’t follow that journey, here’s a quick recap of how I ended up on the Today Show (I’ll put some links in the bio.) In May 2014, my wife and I had two small kids and I had been too busy with an architecture competition I was working on to think about Mother’s Day. But as it happened I had the day before free and the office where I was working had just gotten a new 3d printer. So I snapped some shots and headed in to make a vase. About a half year later, some friends convinced me to take the parametric design tool I’d created and put it to work for other people selling vases on Kickstarter. 3d printers are fun and I thought this could be a way to get my own. So after convincing my extremely patient wife to help me put together a cringy Kickstarter launch video (link in bio), Fahz was born. (“Fahz -It’s your face in a vase!” Get it???) …

May, 2017

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Harvesting

February, 2016

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What’s interesting about this study is how deceptively simple it is. It’s a grid of equally spaced lines that rotate and subtly change shade. That’s it.

August, 2021

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I remember this was one of my first experiments sketching with dynamic physical system

September, 2016

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Disturbance

August, 2017

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One of my favorite patterns

November, 2022

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I actually have no memories making this but it’s kind of soothing to watch

May, 2020

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In another former life I was working on a massive international airport project for a bit. This was part of my musings on grids, constraints and freedom. I feel somehow like there’s still a lot of stuff here to be explored.

May, 2018

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In 2016, I had a very strange idea to try to project fragments of letterforms onto a bridge in Weimar, Germany. Over a decade before that, I had the opportunity to spend a semester studying architecture at the Bauhaus-Universität and while immersing myself in the revolutionary modern design thinking that came out of that place, I got to indulge my love of German letters, both in the figurative sense (Deutsche Klassik, Goethe, Schiller..) and the literal sense. I lived in an old house that said “Gut Werkzeug halbe Arbeit” in strong Fraktur characters right there on the facade. And through the @pavillonpresse I learned about the work of Felix Walbaum in Weimar. He’s a super interesting figure whose work bridges so many traditions of visual culture and at some point I thought it would be great to bring some of Weimar’s graphic history together with its unique built environment to light up the Ilm.

March, 2016

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The final piece has a depth of form, texture and color that was the result of the combined design, fabrication, construction, structural, ceramic and glazing know-how of an amazing team. @darinazlateva , Asli Oney, Tulip Yeung, @leguse , Laura Karnath, Andy Brayman, @anne_currier and everyone at @bostonvalleyterracotta

August, 2019

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February, 2018

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I like how the structure here builds up along the edges first

November, 2017

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A sphere of circles

June, 2017

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I like constraints. So #3dprinting has always been a tricky area of investigation for me, because the ruling ethos is that a #3dprinter can “make anything”. While that’s certainly more true than, say, working with a bandsaw, experience has shown there are forms that are more suited to a layer-by-layer, bottom-up way of making. These images are just a few experiments with those types of forms.

September, 2019

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Looking back at this with a bit of distance, the crazy thing isn’t that one fully resolved parametric model was made. It’s that thousands of them were made.

December, 2008

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While looking through old files for the #betterbin submission I was reminded of an earlier scheme that would have hewed much closer to the original, but with an updated mesh design. Maybe I should have gone with that one.

August, 2018

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September, 2019

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Every time I think I’m out of the aeolian geomorphology game, @stoicrise pulls me back in! In reality, there’s so much about these research papers that fascinates me. In general, it’s about setting up some simple rules up front and then letting the system play out. Order arises out of apparent chaos. Or out of nothing.

April, 2023

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Circles in circles

November, 2021

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Another nice g. This one I especially like around :04 and :06.

October, 2017

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September, 2019

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Blocks and shadows

February, 2014

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During my time as a “digital potter” I made a lot of vases with a lot of faces. But along the way I’d also get special requests. If I remember correctly, this was an entire extended family. I remember the layout algorithm got quite complex to fit that many faces on one vase without one interfering with the next. I think my record was 16 faces, but I’d have to check.

October, 2015

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Some renderings from 2008 work on coding traditional knitting patterns with @fadometer

December, 2008

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This video shows that the two light shades in my living room are actually the same light shade.

February, 2017

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Digital stippling exercise

March, 2018

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This one happens to have pride of place in our living room

February, 2017

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Another parametrically designed custom lap shade project. #3dprinted and made to install using basic #ikea components.

February, 2017

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March, 2020

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It’s all about evolution and change

November, 2018

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Circles in circles

November, 2021

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Chiton series

February, 2019

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Saint Jerome

January, 2017

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Circles in circles

November, 2021

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Usually when I dig up an old sketch like this, I can tell immediately how I’d set up the physical system to make the drawing. This one is simple, but for some reason it’s not so obvious. I may have to find the file, because I like the subtlety of the result.

December, 2017

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It may not look like much now, but back in 2008, this video was kind of like a Meisterbrief for early investigations into coding and design. In the days before visual scripting interfaces (or even modern coding languages in Rhino), work like this was difficult and painstaking. Which is why it was such a pleasure working on it together with @fadometer whose deep research into design and textiles remains an inspiration.

December, 2008

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As much as I believe in the power of #3dmodeling, there’s nothing like a good #2d drawing to cut to the heart of a project.

February, 2009

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A fully resolved parametric #rhino3d was essential to the successful planning of the #geneticstair fabrication, delivery and installation process.

January, 2010

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This was an extremely fun material study done with @marblefairbanks . It’s nice to see the same geometry made initially with #3dprinting then #cnc milled out of different grades of plywood.

February, 2018

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I like this one so much @miriammilord and @bcake put it on a cake

December, 2017

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Perspectives

March, 2018

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Permutations

May, 2017

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A few years ago, during a not particularly creative period in my professional life, I decided to combine two of my loves—meticulous #metalwork and #newyorkcity—to take part in a competition sponsored by @nycsanitation and @van_alen to update NYC’s iconic green metal mesh trash cans. I didn’t win, but the project did manage to scratch a particular itch.

September, 2018

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Just a quick splash of color on a Sunday morning

April, 2019

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February, 2020

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Another color study. Perfect for a spring day.

September, 2016

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One of the great things of working with design/graphic systems is the work is never really done. Just looking at the last video I posted and found some favorite distinct little moments. These images are from :01, :04, :30, 1:38, 2:03 and 2:29, respectively. I’d love to hear your favorites.

November, 2018

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I’ve worked on a lot of #3dprinted lighting projects over the years, but this one with @adam_yarinsky remains one of my favorites, because of the way we dug into the #details . The goal was to integrate the new shade with a beautiful, minimal stainless steel fixture already in place. The solution takes advantage of custom tapered connection pieces more easily fabricated with 3d printing than traditional techniques.

May, 2017

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The view from below is still my favorite

February, 2017

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Tiling exercise

July, 2016

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The setup of this study is pretty simple. A bunch of circles in a frame. And the result is to be expected. A highly structured arrangement of bodies. But there are two or three seconds there in the beginning where things go wild. There are territorial battles and border skirmishes. The structure that will eventually take hold is not yet clear. It’s a moment of possibility.

July, 2017

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This ongoing study (which I’ve always just called “glyphs”) is about taking letterforms as raw materials to be used for growing new designs. The idea is something I’m passionate about and I hope to pick up this work in some form again soon.

February, 2016

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This animation is a visualization of the “depth first” search algorithm employed to find viable solutions to the puzzle of fitting a finite set of irregular panels into a given rectangular opening. Computational design resources were few and far between back in the day so I had to dig this one up from an Introduction to Algorithms textbook.

May, 2008

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Sometimes some of my favorite work comes from happy accidents while working towards something else. This was a side path taken while working on #desdesres8c249838a810

October, 2019

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Another study based on nodes, connection and movement.

May, 2017

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A simple aggregation with a few nice details

February, 2020

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The rare color study

September, 2016

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One of my favorite projects from my time @caliperstudio The original idea came from an unrealized architectural façade project and algorithmic explorations, but the project only got better with the input from and collaboration with amazing, knowledgeable metalworkers and craftsmen.

May, 2008

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The texture is subtle, but satisfying

May, 2022

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I use small projects around the house to test out ideas. This was a fun geometric exercise to fit four large circular planters onto a weird, quarter-circle shelf we have in the corner of our apartment

May, 2022

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While not the most sophisticated or most beautiful, this exploration is important to me because it lit a spark. The end of grad school for me was full of lectures on how “algorithms” would transform design. Seemed plausible, but without having ever written a line of code, it was all pretty abstract. Then I decided to see if I could make a kinky line straight. I agonized over these fifty-odd lines of VBScript (zero stars, would not recommend), but as I started to figure out how to draw geometry to the screen, a funny thing happened. Those squiggles started to straighten out.

Created November, 2005

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