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Jnet Software Development
A design tool built from the craft of net-making, translating fabrication knowledge into software for designing nets.
- Category
- Software + AI
- Status
- Completed
- Year
- Studio Echelman
- Medium
- Software · net-making · fabrication
Summary
Jnet is a custom design tool developed from the craft and fabrication logic of large-scale net-making. Rather than treating software as a generic geometry generator, the project translated the physical rules of how nets are constructed, connected, tensioned, and fabricated into a digital design environment. The work sits between computational design and craft knowledge, using software to make specialized material expertise available during the design process.
Project record
01 / Overview
Custom software for designing complex net structures using the fabrication logic and constraints of physical net-making.
02 / The idea
A useful design tool should understand not only the geometry being drawn, but also how that geometry will eventually be made.
03 / What I did
Lead development, computational design, fabrication research, workflow design, and translation of net-making knowledge into digital design rules.
04 / How it works
Fabrication relationships are embedded into the design process so geometric decisions can reflect the behavior, construction, and assembly of the finished net rather than being resolved only after a form has been designed.
Artifacts / working material
01 recordsStatus & links
Completed
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