Unream Lub Teeb by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

Unream Lub Teeb by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Platinum in Tsim Duab 3D Luam Tawm thiab Khoom Luam 3D Competition Category.

PlatinumKev Luam 3D· 2020

Unream Lub Teeb

by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

Client: MIT HCI Engineering Group

A' Design Award Platinum Winner in Kev Luam 3D Category

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The Design

About Unream Lub Teeb

Unream yog ib lub teeb uas tsim los ntawm kev luam 3D voxel siv ntau yam khoom sib xyaw. Sab nraud npog nrog cov lenticular lenses uas luam ua ke nrog cov xim. Unream tshwm cov xim sib txawv thaum saib los ntawm cov kaum sib txawv, yog li lub khoom zoo li muaj duab txav thaum ib tug neeg taug kev hla mus. Lub teeb ua haujlwm li ib yam khoom rau nruab hnub thiab ua qhov chaw pom kev rau hmo ntuj. Qhov siab yog 220 mm thiab qhov dav yog 100 mm. Ib txoj kev ua haujlwm siv computer teem cov khoom qhov zoo rau txhua lub voxel, uas ua rau muaj cov optical textures rau saum cov nplaim uas muaj duab dawb paug.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Platinum

Unream Lub Teeb yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Platinum, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim zoo kawg nkaus, zoo nkauj thiab ci ntsa iab tiag tiag. Cov neeg yeej Platinum yog cov khoom xav tsis thoob ntawm kev tsim, yog cov pov thawj ntawm qhov kawg ntawm kev txawj tsim ntawm tib neeg, thiab qhia txog kev tshaj lij uas tsis muaj leej twg piv tau thiab kev txawj ntse ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Cov qauv tsim no xav tias yuav yog cov haujlwm muaj koob npe tshaj plaws uas txiav txim lub caij nyoog txoj kev zoo nkauj, pab rau zej zog txoj kev noj qab haus huv thiab nthuav dav ciam teb ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis. Unream Lub Teeb qhia txog qib zoo tshaj plaws thiab tsis muaj kev xyem xyav ua rau lub ntiaj teb zoo dua nrog nws cov yam ntxwv muaj txiaj ntsig thiab muaj nqi. Unream Lub Teeb yog ib qho haujlwm uas yeej A' Design Award Platinum, uas txhawb kev xav, tshoov siab, ua rau zoo siab thiab ua rau muaj kev xyiv fab loj.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Unream is the first 3D printed object that displays dynamically by itself. With the most advanced multi-material voxel printing technology, we create 'dream-like' materials that used to exist only in the digital world. Covered by lenticular lenses, Unream is a daytime artifact and night lamp revealing dynamic colors in different viewing angles. With Unream, we reimagined the relationship between human, space, and objects by expanding binary material presence to dynamic material experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: Height: 220 mm * Width: 100mm
Tags: 3D printing, Multi-material printing, voxel printing, lenticular effect, lighting design, dynamic material, material interface, illusory material, optical textiles
Production Technology: Most of the material is a single layer of a separate entity that only exists uniformly on a product surface. With Unream, we break this inertial thinking by embedding information into three-dimensional matter (voxel) and assign different material properties to each voxel in multi-material printing. Designers can use our computational workflow to create object interfaces with various material distributions that can display unique material expressions.
Design Challenge: Structural textures are extremely hard to be applied on a free-form model using 3D printing. With our workflow, not only structural textures but also optical textures can be applied on any 3D surface. With Unream, we've developed a computational workflow that can assign different material properties to each voxel in multi-material printing.
Research: Unream is one of the products designed with "illusory material": a MIT research about 3D printing lenticular effect. The lenticular effect people can create, and the quality of optical aberrations is highly restricted by existing manufacturability in optical lens and printer resolution. Normally, the making of lenticular sheet and content images are separate and handled by different people. With multi-material 3D printing, we can design the optical lens together with the image content, experimenting with different shapes and depths of the lens, surface form, and even the transparency and hardness of the image content. At the product/object level, it is possible to apply the lenticular effect on any form, manipulating the optical properties of any object surface.
Inspiration: There are increasing conversations around interactive and responsive materials, most of them require additional medium like electronic input. We want to create a new material organization that responds directly to user intervention or the environment. With multi-material 3D printing, we envision a future where designers can manipulate color, texture, and reflectivity of materials freely, creating objects with unique optical expressions that can be never achieved with other methods.
Project Duration: The project started in June 2019 at MIT and finished in February 2020 at San Fransisco.
Operation Flow: When walking pass the object, it looks like a digital screen with ambient animation.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng, 2020
Team Members: Designer: Jiani Zeng
Designer: Honghao Deng
Advisor: Axel Kilian
Advisor: Stefanie Mueller
Image Credits: Jiani Zeng