CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
2016
Role: Concept design, design development, lead computational design, fabrication
Made with
Hypersonic
Constructive Interference is a sculpture designed for the Learning Innovation Center at OSU.
The sculture is composed of two large patterned sheets of steel, designed to create a rapidly changing visual interference effect as viewers pass by. Secondary moving shapes and hidden structures appear fleetingly within the sculpture as the eye and body pass by, presenting a sensory mystery: a static object that appears, impossibly, to be moving.
The sculpture is a metaphor for how we exchange knowledge, how synthesis of apparently different fields widens our perspective, and how investigation deepens our understanding of the reality in which we live. The composition of the moire pattern derives from the principles of electrostatics, where two electric poles form field lines in an exchange of electrical information.