designing Dios

Cult piece to reflect, meditate and admire.

2024

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AI generated render
Based in Mayan and Aztec's DATA

Aluminium finishes

The initial use of AI (stable diffusion) is to generate concepts of drawings and scrips based in Mayan and Aztec original scripts and sculptures.

Design for Manufacture

Technology

Cōātlīcue

Era venerada como la madre de los dioses y estaba representada como una mujer que usa una falda de serpientes.

hardware & software

This is a product design/ Art project

Spiritual sculpture based on memories and symbolism of the meso-american old cultures. Brought back to life using AI and computer technology. Aiming to motivate meditation and offerings to the powerful unknown of forms that once were sacred and powerful...

Design Process

Mood / intention

otra parte crucial de la pieza es la tecnología que va llevar integrada. Computadoras y pantallas tienen que ser integradas y también contribuir a los atributos de pieza de culto. mostrando los electrónicos y los cables, se busca crear un sentimiento de evolución de lo antiguo con lo moderno. La selección de la tecnología es crucial para poder diseñar y elegir el media que se va a mostrar y el poder de la pieza de collectar data.

Nature - Technology - Meditation - Humans - Sacret - Future - Algorithms - Self efficient

El monolito como pieza física tiene que tener las características de un objeto religioso. ya sea por su formas - materiales - simbología.
El objeto tiene que inspirar respeto y trasmitir un cierto nivel de alabanza. Los símbolos usados y creados using AI tiene que derivar de arte y simbología original.

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In order to transform the Ai generated render of Coatlicue into an aluminium physical object, it is required to extract the many different vectors, and depths to work it on 3D.

Software:
Adobe illustrator in the iPad & computer
Solidworks
Camworks
Photoshop
Adobe Capture
Keyshot

Concepts - by Enrique

Processes

Made from waste this work follows the principle of re-using and reporposing. making it a free piece that can be replicated and it is open source. a fill inventory of differetn waste from enzosystems has been done.

Etching with acid
Sand blasting
tool path marks
polish / facing

Etching

Interesting process to achieve detailed los depth surface in scripts. it requires the use of chemicals and can be done with the equipment available. Some samples will be made.

Experiments with soda acid where done to etch the aluminium. the aluminium used is a high maritime grade so the acid does not penetrate easily, only achieving a very light surface engrave like depth. ADD Images

Making an altar

Symmetry elements 📏 🕯
The 4 elements 🔥 💧 🐚 🪨
Precious metals 💎
Flowers / plants 💐 🌿
Offerings 📿
Incense 🪔
Praying 🙏🏽
A solid base

The final piece will mix these 3 concepts. But primarily based in concept 1

One of the key aspect of this project is to make use of waste materials and re-used screens and computers to build the hardware. This fact requires a higher level of design

The piece will mix milled aluminium and 3D printed resin elements. The middle part of the sculpture will be 3D printed with translucent resin as it will be illuminated.

The piece must be looked up if possible
dimensions: 1.8m tall 800 wide
the piece will be made in pieces that will assemble

Inspiration
Nsdos - music station

Base

Materials

Milling is the main manufacturing process that will be used to complete this piece. And it will me made in aluminium.

Tracing images into vectors. manual process

The manufacturing of the base has to be split into different sections due to the complexity of the milling program. it is required a powerful computer to compute all the different shapes and to calculate the tool paths. So, in order to be able to produce this part, it is required to mill in by layers.

As seen in other ritualistic pieces, the base has to be solid and heavy. In this case now that a 1:1 prototype has been created it is obvious that the base has to be bigger.

the base will be made of 3 layers or big aluminium plates 30 mm thick each, reaching a maximum height of 80 mm.

The base will be the case for all the electronic elements which in this case will be computers, power and microcontrollers.

Three.js and AI

The extreme slowness forces your mind into a different rhythm.
you're meditating, almost involuntarily.

The ambiguity leaves space for personal reflection.
You project your own fears, regrets, hopes onto the debris.

It's participatory philosophy: you complete the meaning yourself.

A perfect object feels dead. A scarred object feels lived-in.

Rituals

Displays

There will be 4 displays, placed at the top eye level of the sculpture. the displays are salvage from old 2012 iPad's. They will be connected to a raspberry pi Zero 2 watt, which will work as wireless HDMI, so only power need to be provided.

Netowork

A local network will be created to display content in the displays. there will be no internet, the piece must be independent. Local host webpages will be wireless display using the HDMI raspberry pi receivers.

Computers

If a powerful computer like the one from Enrique is installed, then we will be able to render and run the AI models locally. Small windows computers are available for simple web browsing and video and audio handling. The base of the piece will be design in such a way so it can be upgraded in the future.

Iconografia

It could be said that the main purpose of the piece is to be a object for ceremonies and rituals. It is at least my intention. During the now 2 years of work on the piece, i have been researching and very much interested in the philosophical meaning of rituals as well as the impact and importance in human and non human entities. The unknown is at the essence of the original inpirations pieces where the AI copied the shapes and forms. It is crucial to follow and to respec this intentions as we are not making anything new but jut adapting it to this new era.

Render in using https://www.babylonjs.com/
create a .glb model exported from solidworks and clean up and re-saved in blender to show in the meeting.

intention to show the current state progress of the piece and the capabilities of web rendering for the piece.