Advisor: Casey Rehm

This project begins to challenge the idea of scripting as a method of developing form. This was achieved by using a robot, a fifty pound block of wax, and a heat gun. Using Processing as the software to drive the operations, a script was developed to produce a 3D mesh of the block of wax using the Xbox Kinect (IR Scanner) controller. The script then told the tool (heat gun) to find the point on the mesh with the steepest normal and to track to adjacent points around it without travelling over the same points. This process of seeking the greatest normal is repeated over and over, hoping to produce a feedback loop that continually seeks and exaggerates the steepest normals.