JD Procedural Models

For my Furniture Design I chose to design chairs that respond to visual generations of sound waves. I wanted to create an object that would be responsive to personal taste as any form of audio can be used to generate a chair for the user.  I used both Grasshopper from Rhino 3D and Processing. In Processing I used the Sound library which allowed me to import sound files and then extract information like amplitude. To generate the proper image I had to first tune the graph to fit inside the image size I set. My first image was a line graph which quickly became unmanageable in Grasshopper. Grasshopper processes images by pushing a grid through the image and outputting a value of 0 to 1 for darkness or 0 to 255 for colour. To do this I needed to push a grid through it however that was both unmanagable, CPU expensive, and would only create a outline of the image of sound instead of values from the sound.  To solve this I changed it from a linegraph to a barcode pattern with

I fallen behind in my 3D model due to a block but I'm almost caught back up. I'm using sound to create parametric values for generating my furniture, in this case a set  of chairs as a test sample, I still need to attach some supports and finish joining some objects however I've found it's been successful so far. What we're looking at is 3 designs I rendered out from my grasshopper script. The first one is noticeably geometric, this is my control test which I used processing to generate a image of random noise. The image is 1 dimensional as in I recorded the amplitude of noise in a strictly horizontal format. For the song originally was using a plotted graph to record magnitude however in Grasshopper reading this information would require that I map an entire grid across the image and extract the values from that point list which would have been difficult an inefficient. I switched to this 1 dimensional pattern and set the amplitude to the darkne