Scripted Table

Tetrable, the current phase of an exploration into self documenting processes, presents an automated design process for the production of a custom table product.

The Tetrable system allows for maximum user customization within a rigid structural system.  Utilizing a packed tetrahedron for maximal structural rigidity and “pixel” packing the materialization allows for rapid formal alteration without compromising structural rigidity. Using Rhino Script as a platform to generate a custom interface, the user specifies the length, width, and height of the table, then simply selects a greyscale gradient image of their own creation generating the topography of the table structures and any color image to be transposed through the material.  The system then produces a layer by layer set of plans describing the assembly of the final model, a preset laser cut template, broken apart by color as well as 3d model of the table system for representation.  The table itself provides a functional top surface which exposes a pixelization of the users chosen image and a substructure that exposes the abstracted color space through sectional cavitation of the image.  The resulting effect acts on both the image and the table with the same methodology, blending both a from an identifiable and functional norm to an abstracted condition which maintains functionality without becoming restrained by it.