Tuesday January 26th, 2021

Some new cups

Wednesday November 4th, 2020

AI cup II

In a previous post we explained how we fed 1000 pictures to a StyleGAN network to create new images of new coffee cups. We took this experiment a step further and tried to feed an image of a coffee cup to a neural network that ...

Friday October 23rd, 2020

Clay 3D Printer

Spatial designer and machine builder Tom Dijkstra develops paste based 3D printers already for quite some time. The first 3D printer he had ever developed for Nou&Herkauw was a paper maché 3D printer for a paper recycle and object design ...

Wednesday October 7th, 2020

Clay casting of a cup

We made a short video that shows how we make a two part plaster mold and finally clay cast a cup. For making the mold we use a 3D printed box. You can reuse it for new ...

Wednesday September 30th, 2020

Maker Faire Eindhoven

To present the research to the public we applied for the Maker Faire in Eindhoven that took place on September 26 and 27. This was a good opportunity to measure the reaction of visitors playing with the first presentable sketches of 2 algorithms ...

Monday June 8th, 2020

AI cup

Another research path we are exploring is the generation of a 3D model of a coffee cup based on an AI generated cup. We fed more than 1000 pictures of coffee cups to a StyleGAN deep learning network. The result is an algorithm that can ...

Thursday June 4th, 2020

Clay 3D print

In our projects we work together a lot with spatial designer and machine builder Tom Dijkstra. Tom just finished building a clay 3D printer. He printed out the left cup in the picture, based on the first design. The cup looks a bit more ...

Friday May 8th, 2020

And a second Cup

A second perlin cup. The difference with the first cup is that this one is completely generated from code and parameters. The first cup was designed using 3D modelling software (Cinema 4D). We use a game engine (Unity 3D) to process the realtime ...

Thursday March 5th, 2020

First clay cast

Our first transformation from a digital model to a cup cast in clay. The first step is to make a 3D print of the digital model and use this print as the master model. Next step is to make a two part plaster mold. Because the model has different ...

Thursday March 5th, 2020

First sketch

We developed the Perlin Cup to quickly translate our first ideas into a sketch. A way to investigate the possibilities and challenges. We developed the sketch when we were writing the research plan. The cup is generated by a set of ...