Gallery: Designer Uses Algorithm to Genetically Breed ... Chairs
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*Chairgenics* is an investigation of what would happen if you took the best features of the world’s most iconic chairs and bred them together. This is the result ... so far. *Image: FormNation*
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The genetic makeup of this chair is: archetypical: 5%, Bertoia: 40%, Monoblock: 5%, Eames Hardshell: 10% and Thonet: 40%. *Image: FormNation*
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You can see the mesh pattern from the Bertoia and the open gaps from the Thonet. *Image: FormNation*
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There are still issues, like this big gaping hole in the seat. Habrakan says he's about 70 percent of the way to designing the perfect chair. *Image: FormNation*
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He chose a gene pool that assessed the genetic makeup of chairs based on ergonomics, durability, construction, cost and aesthetics. *Image: FormNation*
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Mini models of some of the resulting offspring. *Image: FormNation*
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Though Habrakan had an original gene pool, along the evolutionary road, he introduced other chairs like a Plia folding chair and Thonet that would bolster the final product. *Image: FormNation*
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Habrakan envisions this method of 3-D breeding could be applied to animation, where a realistic blending of two characters could produce a fictional, but genetically honest, offspring. *Image: FormNation*
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Maybe someday this design process could be applied to other objects, too. "I’d be very interested to know what would happen if I started to breed a table with a chair, a lamp with a chair,” he says. *Image: FormNation*
