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Students Parametrically Design and Digitally Produce a Chess Board

HBK Braunschweig / Digital Crafting

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First semester students at the University of Arts, Braunschweig create a parametrically designed and digitally produced chess board during their 'Digital Crafting' classes.

Design Team

Supervision: Dr. Manuel Kretzer / Visiting Professor Digital Crafting
Students: Lydia Jasmin Hempel, Moritz Boos, Maximilian Dauscha, Tim Daniel Ingo Lüders, Leon Ehmke, Florian Schulze, Anna Ocklitz, Elina Mishina, Benedikt Schaudinn

Manuel Kretzer Renderings of one of each student's figures produced from layered sheets of cardboard

Maximilian Dauscha and Benedikt Schaudinn Complete set

Maximilian Dauscha and Benedikt Schaudinn

Leon Ehmke Poster of chess figures

Tim Lüders Poster of chess figures

Moritz Boos Poster of chess figures

Manuel Kretzer Rendering of set of black chess figures

The task of the course was to conceive a complete set of chess figures from a single algorithmic definition using Rhino and Grasshopper. Yet each individual figure should exhibit decisive individual characteristics, making it distinctively recognizable from the others.

The students were asked to depart from the classical notion of chess figures and reduce their particular features to a selection of essential parameters. One of each of the students' figures was produced from laser-cut layers of cardboard.

After a selection process, one final set was chosen, refined and 3D printed at Shapeways. Additionally, a chess board was designed, which was made from laser-cut black and white plastic fields that were inserted into milled cavities of an 8mm thick transparent sheet of acrylic.

Each student was asked to create a poster communicating their design approach. The course was part of the 'Digital Crafting' modules of the new 'Design in der Digitalen Gesellschaft' program at the University of the Arts in Braunschweig, Germany.

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Manuel Kretzer

7 years ago

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Hi Jason.
In fact they are not renderings but photographs. Except for the few poster images in the end. That's the miracle of digital fabrication. ;)

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  Thanks for clarifying, Manuel -- that's when you know the end result is good.
  
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  I'm interested to see more pictures of the product, especially with human scale.
  
  Also what program did they use to render the bottom pictures?
  
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Jason Ho

7 years ago

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Those are renders, not photographs.

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  Hey Jason -- thanks for pointing this out. We just changed the captions to reflect that the images are in fact renderings, not photographs.
  
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