Optimo

is a task lamp

A short winter project leveraging Generative Topology and Metal Printing to create a showcase of Craft and Technology

Going where no lamp has gone before

Components are expressive and interact with each other in harmonious elegance to cast a unique light signature

Why?

Complex twisted surfacing is not producible, in

traditional methods or machining without

exorbitant costs and waste.

I wanted to learn new tools and highlight how

AI can unlock previously impossible

fantasies into the real world.

A creative exercise to highlight problem solving

in a modern era, with a peek into

my personal aesthetic style.

Make it So

“Saucer” section is lightened to push center of gravity rearward, reduce flexing and make hinges smaller.

Generative Topology allowed for a 20% redux in weight with massive 40% cost savings in print materials, with a minor reduction of only -12% rigidity. The biggest win is getting printing costs 45% lower than CNC and building in features that would otherwise require secondary ops.

“Tail” section is solid to provide a rigid connection to hinge and help heat transfer

The algorithmic nature of Chat GPT determined material properties, limits and ideal transition zones which were proofed with simulations in NTopology, where an adaptive variable gyroid field transforms based on where strength is required and is ultimately exported into a printable file.

“Ad astra per aspera”

The optimism of 60’s space race, the utopian aspirations of Star Trek and the unbound fluidity of Deconstructivism have been lifelong inspirations.

Vision

Human

Execution

Machine

Watertight Solidworks CAD is exported

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NTop transforms into implicit body for modifications and stress simulations to create a printable deliverable

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CAD is dropped into Chat GPT to calculate optimal solid-lightened boundaries, wall thickness and forces based on rigidity and stresses and verified with NTop

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