Design Studies Inspired by Perry’s “Sea & Sky.”
Carlo H. Séquin

Hyperseeing: Proceedings of Shape Creation Using Layouts, Programs, & Technology (SCULPT) 2023
Pages 47–56
Regular Papers

Abstract

“Sea & Sky” is a large metal sculpture by Charles O. Perry (1929-2011) that depicts the sweep of an equilateral triangle along an elegant 3D space curve. This report documents the effort by which I tried to create an accurate CAD model from just a few pictures of that sculpture. This sculpture then served as inspiration for several derivative sculptures that fall into the same family of shapes ‒ all of which are generated by a smooth sweep of a triangular cross-section. These explorations then lead to a new investigation of the kind of shapes that could be built with a very small set of “standard” building blocks in the shape of quarter-toroids bending through 90°.

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