technabob.com - 10/6/2008
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This wild piece of modern furniture may look like an abstract shape from the mind of its creator, but it’s actually been precisely engineered from a 3-dimensional waveform plot of a brief audio clip.
To make his Sound/Chair, designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez started with a 3D plot ...
dvice.com - 10/2/2008
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dvice.com —
Although this chair looks like it's made from
LEGO , designer Matthew Plummer Fernandez actually used a...
much more geeky material in building it: sound waves. The Sound/Chair has contours that precisely match sound waves mapped on a 3D graph of ...
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Believe it or not, a chair made from sound waves
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Sound Chair gets its shape based on 3D plot of audio waves
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... a block of Polyethelene foam. Plummer-Fernandez had even tried 719 different sounds before he managed to settle down with one that was suitable for a comfy chair with proper arm-rests. This Sound/Chair is made with limited quantities, which is now available at Selfridges UK for a whopping price tag of £3950 or about $7015 USD. Or it can be purchased directly by emailing the designer (matthew [at] plummerfernandez [dot] com) [image] Designer: Plummer-Fernandez via [technabob] This entry was posted on Monday, October 6th, 2008 at 8:09 am and is filed ...
Audio Chair
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... At first glance, it may look like LEGO furniture gone wrong, but this chair has "actually been precisely engineered from a 3-dimensional waveform plot of a brief audio clip." Click here for one more picture.
To make his Sound/Chair, designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez started with a 3D plot based on the volume, time and frequency of a short piece of audio.
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