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London, U.K. -- Jobwerx News-- Martin Hemberg, a post-graduate student, has developed a computational tool called genr8, with advisory services provided by Una-May O'Reilly and Peter Testa, which creates organic looking surfaces.

The concepts and tool are part of the work by the Emergent Design Group at MIT. The goal was to provide architects with access to creative surface design by giving them influence over generative processes. A generative process is the activity of iteratively executing some encoding that creates and then modifies an artifact. In the generative process we chose, what was most intriguing and of use to architects is a model of cellular growth interacting with an environment.

The tool exploits a growth algorithm that mimics nature using evolutionary computation technology - an area inspired by the evolution of biological life. Because the programme is based on nature, rather than following a set of man-made design rules, the surfaces grow holistically instead of incrementally. 'A good example is a human arm. It doesn't grow one centimetre a month starting from the shoulder, but instead it started from a baby arm and all parts grow in parallel,' says Hemberg.

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