Active Tessellation
Inspiration:
This little toy—which I googled to learn is called a “thumb push puppet” or “push button puppet”, with a brief history described here—is my source of inspiration. I want to create a pattern that can mimic the same movement of objects laced together in compression but also released to separate.Sketch:
Looking for reference images in an old coloring book, started by sketching a few tessellations, much simpler geometric designs then the one I designed for the molding and casting week. Thinking about how the pieces could be simply laced together.
Tessellation Design:
I moved my sketch into Illustrator to increase the scale and start to understand how the pieces would separate.
Model Process:
To understand how the pieces would move together, I used foam core to build a model, lacing it together with string and adding small pieces of foam between the segments that touch.