toxi, 6 months ago

@WeavingWithAI Beautiful minimal surfaces & tensile structures! Now how to teach Midjourney to turn this into actual geometry?! 😉

As a general observation, to me it's this lack of concrete underlying geometric/computational/structural models (of the objects & material behaviors represented here as mere pixels) what still keeps me more interested in non-GAN/non-LLM approaches to generative art/design, e.g. using physics sims like below... IMHO these can (still?) serve as more practical/feasible ways to explore the design space with more detailed control over expected (real) behaviors/outcomes and as stepping stones to realizing some of these ideas physically... OTOH your example proves how powerful this is for early ideation phases (or if none of the above matters)... 👍

#Houdini #Vellum #PhysicsSim #SoftbodyPhysics #MinimalSurface

Short animation showing a physics simulation of a cloth sphere shrinking around two solid wireframe curves, forming a minimal surface.
Variation of the previous animation with an extra tunnel connection (aka a seam between opposite poles of the softbody sphere)