A research into generative tableware and ceramics fabrication. Adri Schokker and Wouter Reckman

Genetic Cup

On Charles Darwin and (Un)Natural Selection

New cups are continuously generated from previous generations based on a small set of genes. It starts out with eight cups generated from two parent cups. These are presented to you in pairs and you can pick your preference from each of these four pairs. Then the four cups you selected are presented again in two pairs and the two cups you select this time will be used as the two parent cups for the next generation.

This process can be repeated endlessly and gives you the opportunity to search for a cup you like. As soon as you’ve found one you like, you can save it to a file to print it, and bring it into existance in the physical world.

Instructions:

  • Click on the left or right cup to choose your favorite, the next two cups will be automatically presented to you.
  • Note the cup numbers in the upper right corners. The number before the dot is the current generation, the number after the dot indicates which cup is shown within that generation.
  • At the end of every selection round (generation), the two remaining cups are shown (blinking blue) before it starts a next round.
  • To rotate the cups, hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse. With a trackpad (mac), click with two fingers on the trackpad, hold down and move the fingers. On most PC trackpads, hold down the right trackpad button and move one finger around on the trackpad.
  • Press the buttons below to download the cups, or to restart.
Save left
Save right
Restart

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