Robotic Naguri2024 —
Exploring how robotic digital manufacturing techniques can integrate with Naguri manual wood chiseling skills. The aim is to develop operational workflows that facilitate opportunities for human-robot collaboration. This research seeks to create a novel carving technique for woodworking by applying digital design and robotic fabrication to the field of craftsmanship.![]()
Vasculature
2024 —
By translating the Victoria water-lily’s vascular geometry into algorithmic code, this project choreographs carving paths through Rhino/Grasshopper to match the KUKA robotic arm’s TCP. Its refined grinding process explores a new frontier of jade artistry, revealing how mechanical precision can mirror and elevate traditional carving details, ultimately uniting computational design, natural inspiration, and robotic craftsmanship.
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Petals
2021 —
Petals-ITTTS (Interconnective Transformable Tensegrity Timber Structure) is a specific tansegrity sculpture, detects the informations from environmental temperature, sunlight, and humidity, in order to control shape-changing and embedded lighting doing petal-like performance, create a mutual dialogue between residents and ecological information in public.
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Sensitive Floral2023 —
is an interactive, generative artwork that ventures into the exploration of a unique generative system, biomimetically emulating the reactive behaviors of the Mimosa pudica plant. By synthesizing the complexity of fractal tree data structures with the Cellular Automata (CA) mechanisms of grid computations, the artwork mirrors nature’s adaptive and responsive traits.
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Dandelion Mirror 2014 —
uses facial recognition technology, combined with a complex fractal and recursive algorithm, to transform the viewer's expression into a growing virtual dandelion. Smiles cause the dandelion to blossom, while fading expressions make it shrink or return to a bud. This media art highlights the importance of each smile, blending data visualization with human reflection
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Exploring how robotic digital manufacturing techniques can integrate with Naguri manual wood chiseling skills. The aim is to develop operational workflows that facilitate opportunities for human-robot collaboration. This research seeks to create a novel carving technique for woodworking by applying digital design and robotic fabrication to the field of craftsmanship.
Vasculature
2024 —
By translating the Victoria water-lily’s vascular geometry into algorithmic code, this project choreographs carving paths through Rhino/Grasshopper to match the KUKA robotic arm’s TCP. Its refined grinding process explores a new frontier of jade artistry, revealing how mechanical precision can mirror and elevate traditional carving details, ultimately uniting computational design, natural inspiration, and robotic craftsmanship.
Petals
2021 —
Petals-ITTTS (Interconnective Transformable Tensegrity Timber Structure) is a specific tansegrity sculpture, detects the informations from environmental temperature, sunlight, and humidity, in order to control shape-changing and embedded lighting doing petal-like performance, create a mutual dialogue between residents and ecological information in public.
Sensitive Floral2023 —
is an interactive, generative artwork that ventures into the exploration of a unique generative system, biomimetically emulating the reactive behaviors of the Mimosa pudica plant. By synthesizing the complexity of fractal tree data structures with the Cellular Automata (CA) mechanisms of grid computations, the artwork mirrors nature’s adaptive and responsive traits.
Dandelion Mirror 2014 —
uses facial recognition technology, combined with a complex fractal and recursive algorithm, to transform the viewer's expression into a growing virtual dandelion. Smiles cause the dandelion to blossom, while fading expressions make it shrink or return to a bud. This media art highlights the importance of each smile, blending data visualization with human reflection
Mimosa Pithics2024 —
A detailed kinetic interactive sculpture that merges mechanical structure and SMA (Shape Memory Alloy) material with the traditional craft of pith paper, a cultural asset unique to the Hsinchu region.
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Algorithmic Nature in Robotic Calligraphy2024 —
Explores the integration of generative graphics and robotic calligraphic drawing to materialize intricate digital patterns. (work-in-progress)
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Parameter, Algorithm and Nature
with Shih-Yuan Wang
2020 —
This installation uses industrial robot as an in-between medium, interacting with swarm behaviors of artificial life in cyclorama, brings seamless communication from physical performance into virtual world.
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Volta 2015 — 2021
Volta is an alternative table design, inspired by the rib vault of the cathedral. The design of the table legs refers to the structure’s arched structure column. In the night lighting mode, through the refraction and reflection between its inside light source and the half-reflective glass used on the desktop, the object can project the beauty of the arched building into the indoor environment in the form of light and shadow.
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Heartbeats2016 —
An installation that embodies the emotion from private heartbeat pulse into lighting rhythms, creating an alternative way to visualize bio-information with aesthetics.
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Pinecone2015 — 2016
This kinetic sculpture used pneumatic system by compressed air, cylinder, and foldable structure, to display geometrical tessilation from a flate surface into folding curve, showing shape-changing of artifical nature.
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A detailed kinetic interactive sculpture that merges mechanical structure and SMA (Shape Memory Alloy) material with the traditional craft of pith paper, a cultural asset unique to the Hsinchu region.
Algorithmic Nature in Robotic Calligraphy2024 —
Explores the integration of generative graphics and robotic calligraphic drawing to materialize intricate digital patterns. (work-in-progress)
Parameter, Algorithm and Nature
with Shih-Yuan Wang
2020 —
This installation uses industrial robot as an in-between medium, interacting with swarm behaviors of artificial life in cyclorama, brings seamless communication from physical performance into virtual world.
Volta 2015 — 2021
Volta is an alternative table design, inspired by the rib vault of the cathedral. The design of the table legs refers to the structure’s arched structure column. In the night lighting mode, through the refraction and reflection between its inside light source and the half-reflective glass used on the desktop, the object can project the beauty of the arched building into the indoor environment in the form of light and shadow.
Heartbeats2016 —
An installation that embodies the emotion from private heartbeat pulse into lighting rhythms, creating an alternative way to visualize bio-information with aesthetics.
Pinecone2015 — 2016
This kinetic sculpture used pneumatic system by compressed air, cylinder, and foldable structure, to display geometrical tessilation from a flate surface into folding curve, showing shape-changing of artifical nature.
All images and videos courtesy Scottie Chih-Chieh Huang and The NTHU BioLogicDesign.