From the Museum of Childhood I picked up a toy called Switch Pitch (video) that transforms before your eyes.
I was very pleased to read on PingMag that inventor Chuck Hoberman creates both consumer toys and large scale transformable environments using the same principles.
“Despite your work being based on math, your approach is still a playful one, as you said. So, invention comes of play?
I don’t want to overemphasise this, but in the broad sense: yes. I think creativity and play are very closely related. You have to have a freedom of mind…
… which might be not easy if you have a deadline…
With play you don’t have the constraints. But to create something in the way that most professional people work, you play within the constraints, so the deadline is a constraint. Also, physics and material reality are constraints…”
Read the article and see the videos of Hoberman Associates in action.
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(via Pixelsumo.)
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Category: art, design
Tags: 3d, game, geometry, mathematic, structure, toy
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