My original inspiration originally game from a moment recently when someone asked me “what did you love when you were little.” For some reason I immediately remembered k’nex. I remember day after day coming home from school to spend hours alone building and creating. I’ve been thinking about this in respect to my current/long lasting want to build new ‘things.’ Alot of my work involves this act, of the build and the unbuild. Most specifically I remember this game my father and I used to play with k’nex, a game I think I’ve subconsciously held onto.

I’m also thinking about the current increase in 3D printing. How printers in every form and size are being made, with concerns of resolution. I think about necessity and material. Of how the world will change if 3D printers do become a common tool for every family. Where will all the plastic come from… and go.

With this I think about materials that we have and exist for form. Both forms we understand and forms we can fabricate or refabricate.

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This simulation can work well because the “fitness” of the different stages of the layouts are very computational. There is a definitive percentage that can be calculate between the distance of the edges of the shapes to the contour.