Unream Moli by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

Unream Moli by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Platinamu in Mamanu Lolomi 3D Competition Category.

PlatinamuLolomi 3D· 2020

Unream Moli

by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng

Client: MIT HCI Engineering Group

A' Design Award Platinamu Winner in Lolomi 3D Category

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The Design

About Unream Moli

O le Unream o se moli na gaosia i le lomitusi 3D voxel e tele mea faitino. O le fogāfale ua ufitia i tioata lenticular ua lomitusi faatasi ma le anotusi lanu. E faaali mai e le Unream lanu eseese mai vaaiga eseese, o lea e foliga mai ai le mea faitino o loo faaali se ata gaoioi pe a savali ane se tagata. E galue le moli o se mea faitino i le ao ma o se punaoa malamalama i le po. O le maualuga e 220 mm ma le lautele e 100 mm. O se faagasologa faakomepiuta e tuuina atu uiga o meafaitino i voxel taitasi, lea e mafai ai ona iai ni mea vaaia faapitoa i luga o fogāfale foliga saoloto.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Platinamu

O le A' Design Award Platinamu na manumalo ai Unream Moli, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu e moni lava ona ese, matagofie ma mataʻina. O ē manumalo i le Platinamu o mea ofoofogia o le faatufugaga, o molimau o tapulaʻa o le mafaufau fatufatuaʻi, ma e faaalia ai le tomai faapolofesa e le mafaatusalia ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina nei mamanu e avea ma galuega sili ona lauiloa e faamatalaina ai le matagofie o le vaitaimi, saunoa i le manuia o le sosaiete ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Unream Moli e faaalia ai se tulaga maoaʻe o le lelei ma e leai se mea e fesiligia, e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei i ona uiga aogā ma taua. Unream Moli o se galuega na manumalo i le A' Design Award Platinamu e fafagu ai manaʻoga, faaosofia, faaoloa ai le fiafia, ma tupu ai le fiafia tele.

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