Tractable Shape II

This is the re­sult of a study with Mathe­ma­tica on the way to “pro­duce” an enor­mous pos­si­ble range of sha­pes. This tool that we’ve made allows us to create any shape by set­ting re­gu­lar or irre­gu­lar boun­da­ries. then the soft­ware com­pu­tes and gi­ves born to some alien ba­bies. This is all pa­ra­me­tri­cal and ba­sed on mathe­ma­ti­cal func­tions. Mathe­ma­tica is a po­wer­full soft­ware that Open Form will use ef­fi­ciently from now on.

These are the re­sults of one of our pro­ject at the sum­mer school of New Kind of Science.

CA with locator points transposed to a Truchet pattern

Manipulate Tractable Shape

Compilation of Shapes

Z Building

S Building

C Building

CC Building

BH House

2 Responses to “Tractable Shape II”


  1. 1 Stephane

    Hi Mau­rice Mar­tel,
    The Trac­ta­ble Shape II is beau­ti­full. I do my­self so­mething si­mi­lar with 3ds max but for art pro­ject pur­pose.
    I’m ar­tist li­ving in Pa­ris. We are doing a pro­ject Btw sound/image
    I would like to know if trac­ta­ble II, could be used for ex­pe­rie­men­tal works. I would ap­pre­ciate if it’s possible.

    Thank you

  2. 2 Pascal Tremblay

    Allo Mau­rice,

    J’ai bien aimé par­cou­rir cette page et cons­ta­ter qu’avec la puis­sance des mathé­ma­ti­ques vous pou­vez créer des for­mes et con­fi­gu­ra­tions spa­cia­les infinies.

    La li­mite de vo­tre ou­til est ce­lle des mathé­ma­ti­ques; la li­mite de l’extraordinaire science des mathé­ma­ti­ques est infini.

    Pas­cal

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