Do you see the white salad leaf looking parts around the solid gray part (which will eventually become a nose shaped mask)? These white parts are meant to provide a support surface for the Gray parts that otherwise would have been printed in the air and fallen to the ground due to the effects of gravity. These support parts have been created using topology optimization, the algorithmic process used in all kinds industrial manufacturing to optimize mechanical parts through material reduction. The computer simulates mechanical stresses, as gravity in this instance, that the part will be subjected to during regular function, and removes materiel where it is no needed, reducing material waste and strengthening the part at the same time. Interestingly this attempt at hyperrational analysis produces unpredictable and organic looking forms that would not seem out of place as a part of a science fiction movie set. It is almost as if the irrational nature of of our societys belief rationality becomes apparent in its coral reef folds and bulbous outgrowths. A secret reservoir of beauty inside the heart of industrial production. #topologyoptinisation #reaearch #performanceprotocols #gåprotokoller #putinsnose #accordingtothenose #workinprogress https://www.instagram.com/p/CL6JYmihJxt/?igshid=12sv47k37vtz9