Chair Morph

Script created to allow for human centric creation of chairs. The GH file references anthropometric data and based on select preferential data a chair is produced for you. The script takes it a step further by allowing for contour, waffle, and zip variants of the chair to be fabricated by producing laid out mill-ready files.

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Comment by Kevin Miller on May 24, 2017 at 4:07pm: Galen:

Thanks! I wish I slowed down the gif on the legs to give them more than five or so frames... Or I showed all the styles I had. Oh well. Maybe next time!

In regards to your question, I did exactly that. I had to render out individual keyframes and turn layers on and off. The biggest perk to Keyshot for me is that I can queue renders. So as I turn layers on and off I am able to have a backlog of renders and just hit "process queue" at the end. I'm pretty unfamiliar with Blender's interface so I don't know if it can do the same. The bridge I mentioned just allows me to have a live-updating rhino model in the keyshot interface. It reads the view I already set up.

Hope that helps! (Sorry it doesn't really make things much easier)

Comment by Kevin Miller on May 24, 2017 at 7:07am: Siemen: All in all, it ended up being about 300 frames. I only rendered out 151 and then used Photoshop to make it an endless loop!

Comment by Siemen on May 24, 2017 at 5:31am: Damn, how many frames was this?

Comment by Kevin Miller on May 23, 2017 at 10:06pm: Siemen: Thank you! I actually didn't use slider animations for this one. I have about 50 different variables within this script. Each frame ended up isolating a single variable so it was manual. I did automate the baking process and use a plug-in to put each change on its own layer. As for the render software, I used the bridge into keyshot. The same effect can be achieved in vray, however. I am using a custom HDRI map. It was a serene field that I adjusted the hues on to have a pink ground and blue sky. This lights the white material of the chair giving it the cotton candy effect.

Mateusz: Thanks! This was a part of my Master Thesis at Ball State Unversity. I currently do not have any publications (if you're offering, I accept! ha!). If you would like to discuss it more, feel free to send me a message directly and I will gladly share. I appreciate the interest!