Surface Patterns in Architecture Driven by Image Sampling and Robotic Fabrication

Design and artwork driven by image sampling processing has a half-century tradition in contemporary art and computer graphics. In the past two decades, a similar approach has been used for the fabrication of abstract surface patterns for building facades. Recent advances in digital manufacturing based on industrial robots have reignited the interest toward developing new design-to-fabrication techniques which can possess intriguing visual and tectonic properties of the facades, based on image sampling processing and abstract image representation. The aim of the paper is to investigate the different strategies for creating surface patterns, based on image sampling and applying industrial robots as fabrication tools. In this paper, three different robotic fabrication strategies for generating surface patterns driven by image sampling are presented.

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Design and artwork driven by image sampling processing have a long tradition in contemporary art and computer graphics. In recent years, there has been renewed interest in developing new design-to-fabrication techniques using industrial robots, based on image sampling and abstract image representation. This paper presents three different robotic fabrication strategies for generating surface patterns driven by image sampling.