The SPAM team didn’t go dormant this summer, not in the slightest. Aldrin and William continued to manage the lab space and worked tirelessly with professor Jackson to help continue a ten year project to transform the Marching Cubes graphics algorithm from a digital rendering process into a physical one. This tangible meditation on the interaction between the computer and material world’s involves the fabrication of over 4000 individual plastic blocks. There are 19 separate shapes of block, that can render any object (within a certain resolution).

So why did the SPAM team help with this project? And how are we fabricating so many blocks?

The answer to both lies in the following picture…

Aldrin, William and new lab members Tucker and Ivette, have been toiling to run 32 Printrbot Simple’s simultaneously around the clock, for 2 months. The printers will have completed 2000 individual units by the beginning of October.

The blocks will be used to generate pixelated renderings of digital objects in a performance space, which will open mid-October.

More updates to follow soon! Thanks for reading!