Kinematic Pavilion for Transient Passengers
December 6, 2004
AOP in Academic GSAPP, Architecture, Interactive, Research

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This was a exploration in embedded Inverse Kinematic systems.  Each plywood panel has a IK system with 3 nodes embedded into it's surface, so that as each node of the bone structure moves, the panels begin to change into various facetted forms.  I then rigged each node's X, Y, and Z values up to sliders in 3D Max so that I could specifically calibrate each node's movement and be able to track that through time.  The animation frames on the right show a few still images of the process of erecting this small pavilion that would be utilized by transient passengers.

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