John Legelis – Looking Outwards 3 – Computational Fabrication

Meta-Mesh is a project that employes a biomimetics design philosophy (meaning to mimic nature) to create body armor that functions in a similar way to the exoskeleton of an ancient fish. The implementation of this project is cutting edge and uses state of the art tools such as additive manufacturing and algorithmic computational fabrication to execute the desired manufacturing process.

Due to this project’s copycat nature, the creator’s artistic touch is simply an effort to mimic the original artistic touch of nature. The algorithms that synthesize this project are likely complex, but due to the finite number of “links” in the armor, the bits can be treated as module. This allows finite element analysis (FEA) to be very useful in digital trial and error before the forms are even physicalized.