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nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

These earrings were based on the venation patterns seen in ancient plants like ginkgos and ferns. Similae to the kidney fern I photographed in New Zealand. The veins fork and run parallel to each other instead of making a network

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

In most vascular plants, you see more interconnected networks of veins. The simple elegance of the dichotomously branched ones really stands out to me

Light green leaf with darker green veins
Underside of a lily pad, showing thick raised veins emanating from the center of the leaf

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

To create the patterns of the earrings, we made a simulation of leaf venation based on this paper: http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/venation.sig2005.html

Our leaf venation simulation

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@tmr232 @mbonsma no

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@nervous_jesse @davepolaschek glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback!

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@vaurora 🥰

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

Radiolaria are microscopic sea creatures that construct intricate skeletons from glass. Both scientists and artists have historically been inspired by them for their incredible structural properties and aesthetics

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

The design didn’t initially start out as a piece of jewelry. It was actually part of an architectural model I was building for grad school. But when a classmate asked if one of my scraps was a bracelet, I realized my design made better jewelry than it did architecture and Nervous System was born

Photo of the outside of a 3dprinted plaster architecture model I made inspired by radiolaria

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

Here’s a photo of me at my desk at the Harvard Grad School of design in 2007 working on these first jewelry pieces. Wow! I had no idea I would drop out and grow my whole career out of these experiments

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

We made the patterns with a physics simulation of a dynamic spring mesh we made in Processing. This is the version we had on our website in 2007 for visitors to use to make custom jewelry. There’s a newer version here https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/radiolaria

video/mp4

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@ducksauz we have reenabled custom kinematics jewelry and custom puzzles but radiolaria stuff is still on hold. We need to change some things. I should update the message or just do the work…

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@lwtong @nervous_jesse yeah under the trays as we called them

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

The necklace is based on a dress we created for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=7162

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

It’s 3-D printed fully assembled. You can get a sense of the movement in this video. While each piece is rigid, they’re interconnected by teeny tiny hinges that give the piece overall flexibility and movement

Video of me holding the kinematics petals necklace and jiggling it

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

While the dress is composed of 1600+ pieces interconnected by more than 2600+ hinges, it emerges from the 3D printer ready to wear. We employ a smart folding strategy to compress Kinematics garments into a smaller form for efficient fabrication.

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

By folding the garments prior to printing them, we can make complex structures larger than a 3D printer, that unfold into their intended shape #3dprinting

Animation of Folding a kinematics dress for 3dprinting

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

For the Petals dress, we had to employ a different strategy. Rolling works much better than folding due to the overlapping scales. We basically made a simulation to roll up the dress 3D model, and then printed it in that configuration.

Animation of rolling up a red Kinematics dress

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

The dress was printed in white nylon and we hand dyed it to the vibrant red color (Yes! you can die 3D printed nylon with fabric dye!)

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@skyfire101 it’s printed on a powder based printer (selective laser sintering. Unmelted powder acts as support material and is shaken out and recycled after printing

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@isaiah it’s printed on an EOS machine in nylon using selective laser sintering

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@isaiah we have considered selling software, but it’s not something that we have the bandwidth to support right now. Some of our software is available on our site as apps for customizing our products. Some of our designs are available for 3-D printing on thingverse. There’s also two lampshades you can purchase as an STL on our website and there’s a version of the kinematics software where you can download models for printing on an extrusion printer. Links to here https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/labs/

nervous_jessica, 5 months ago

@bronsen heavier than a T-shirt, less heavy than a ballgown