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that must be fabricated on a 3D printer. Traditional jewelry making methods
such as wax molds or welding can't create repeating hollow inner chambers.
Closer to the sub-$100 price range of most consumers, designer Unellenu
specializes in designing 3D printable fractal sculptures and jewelry. Unellenu's
Shapeways storefront has several pages of offerings such as branching pendants
in different metals, each representing a mathematical model. The Pythagoras
Tree is a jewelry holder; its algorithm-driven design of spikey, triangular
branches is a hanger for necklaces, earrings and other inery.
MIT professor Neri Oxman is one of the leading
researchers in generative design. She uses 3D printing
to fabricate shapes designed by mathematical algorithms
to make forms that would not be possible to make using
conventional materials such as glass, steel, and wood.
Nervous System, a generative design company founded in 2007 by MIT
graduates Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, designs the math-
ematical models that drive the designs of their 3D printed housewares and
jewelry. Their wares, stylized shiny renditions of algae, coral, cells, and veins,
are inspired by laws of nature. Nervous System shares their mathematical
