Comments on: Xylem

By: Federico Weber

Federico Weber — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:21:01 +0000

Ciao Riccardo, grazie per i complimenti e buon lavoro con la tua ricerca.

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:14:47 +0000

ah dimenticavo,
ti sto anche citando sulla mia ricerca topic: computational design
continua cosi!!

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:12:31 +0000

Complimenti!!
e’ certamente uno dei progetti piu d’avanguardia che abbia visto recentemente nel campo del product ,
simbolo di apertura di nuovi orizzonti e fonte di ispirazione.
Continuane lo svilupoooo !!!

By: Federico Weber

Federico Weber — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:19:40 +0000

Thanks Sivam.

By: sivam

sivam — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:11:25 +0000

Well done and congrats. I have featured your work in my blog http://genoform.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/will-generative-design-enable-mass-customisation/?preview=true&preview_id=311&preview_nonce=2ec0e3d771

this is a just a beginning of very interesting customization possibilities.

Keep up the good work

By: GenoForm

GenoForm — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:05:08 +0000

Will Generative Design enable mass customisation ?

By: Federico Weber

Federico Weber — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:16:47 +0000

Hi Rodrigo, I’m glad you like it, and thanks for the nice article. I’ve put a lot of efforts designing it to be as simple to use as possible.
Among the libraries I’ve used Toxiclibs for the math and the physical simulator and ControlP5 for some of the interface elements.

Regarding the business model I think there are two main roads a designer can take. It is possible either selling the produced piece, manufacturing it using a net of small unspecialized infrastructure (like a fablab) scattered around the globe, so to use local resources and cut out shipping costs.
Or to sell directly the outcome as a digital files and allow the customer to decide how and where to build their products.
Among this possibilities the first one is the safer, cause you can have more control over the number of pieces produced and the overall quality of the physical product. The second one is the simplest one to implement in terms of infrastructure but it is really hard to guarantee the quality and the functionality of the product, therefore it’s more suited for simpler objects with a limited number of components.

By: Rodrigo Medina

Rodrigo Medina — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:45:17 +0000

Hello Federico , this project is awesome I took the liberty to write a post about it at my site, Would I have identified most of the processing libraries you used for the project would like to now more abot the structure of the code, the interface you have done is very neat and user friendly keep up the good work.

What do you think could be the best option to build business models around this kind of projects?

By: designplaygrounds.com

designplaygrounds.com — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:39:38 +0000

http://designplaygrounds.com/deviants/xylem-by-federico-weber-processing/