Modeling With Motion in WebGL

Creative coding in 3D space

Sean Zhai
The Startup

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Shape Study in Babylon.js

The Inspiration

The idea seems intuitive. We all have seen the lights leaving beautiful trajectories, and we want to record the transient moment so we can keep it. Picasso famously made some light paintings, which were documented in 1949.

Pablo Picasso's Light Painting

The idea of modeling with a moving point is exactly how a 3D printer functions.

3D printed concrete outdoor furniture (designboom.com)

commissioned by interior designer kara mann, philipp aduatz has created a large collection of custom-made 3D printed concrete furniture pieces for a private client in chicago. for this project, philipp aduatz has cooperated with austrian start-up incremental3d, which produced his ‘digital chaiselongue’ for milan design week in 2018.

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Sean Zhai
The Startup

{ coding for something beautiful } algorithmic art, data visualization, aesthetic computing & digital poetry.