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Boolean Patterning

First Row: Changing circle radius.

Second Row: Changing numbers of rows and columns.

Explicit Grids

First Row: Adding more numbers of rows and columns.

Second Row: Changing circle radius.

Surface Grids

First Row: Changing numbers of rows and columns.

Second Row: Changing circle radius and numbers f rows and columns.

Using Sets

First Row: Changing numbers of rows and columns.

Second Row: Reverse of row 1 and changing radius of circles.

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Rotation

First Row: Changing circle density

Second Row: Changing rate of rotation.

Extrusion

First Row: Changing heights of circle columns.

Second Row: Changing numbers of rows and columns

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Design / Selection Method

While I was generating different shapes of the definitions, I found myself was firstly looking for the shapes that are more attractive to me. Most of them have complex looking, with smooth patterns or variable heights of surfaces.

Then when I start to consider them as architectural structural, problems came out more for those ones were looking better for me. Therefore I started to simplifying the shapes trying to make them more achievable in real life.

“Insteadofsearchingthesolu3onspaceforthesolu3ontoaproblem,theylookforasolu3ontotheproblem.Thiscanbeaccomplishedbyreducingthesizeofthesolu3onspacebyaddingconstraintsun3lallbutafeworperhapsonlyonesolu3onremains,makingtheselec3onofthesa3sfactorysolu3ontrivial.”

(YehudaE.Kalay,Architecture'sNewMedia:Principles,Theories,andMethodsofComputer‐AidedDesign(Cambridge,Mass.:MITPress,2004),pp.5‐25)

In Kalay’s article, this method is much better than starting a design with randomly playing around with the shapes. However through the process of changing shapes of one object more inspiration and un-defined problems may come out. It maybe a good way to start a design but not to solve design problems.