Hey everyone, I just wanted to hop on and
share a little bit of a new workflow I'm trying to develop using Midjourney
and specifically Version 4 (--v 4) So these are some pavilion designs that we've been working on in Midjourney
that will become a real thing We're looking to 3D print a
pavilion with my local municipality, so we're working on utilizing
these advanced technologies The pavilion is supposed to represent
the idea of "Advanced Technologies" in collaboration with sustainability efforts
and so we're looking to 3D print mud or adobe And so some of these forms are you know, supposed
to facilitate the ease of 3D printing with arches Though we understand that they're
actually presenting some some difficulties in that so it's a bit of
a research project as well But these are just some of the iterations that we have been
flipping through being inspired by some of the different textures, arches, panelization that
we've seen and we've taken those images and we've started to develop some 3D models that are loosely
based on the images that are being produced And so this is something that we're looking
to 3D print here shortly at a small scale just to start to understand how these parts
and pieces are going to come together I also wanted to share this is sort of a bit
of a theoretical approach on this new workflow that we're imagining the "Traditional" workflow
we see as conceptualizing engineering the form documenting the form and constructing
but we are trying to push this new "Emergent" type of workflow, which is more
of a generate and then componentizing the model for 3D printing or other different
forms of digital fabrication typologies So once we've taken these images of our sort of
reinterpreted form, we have put them back into Midjourney using Version 4 and it's
creating some pretty impressive drawings And we know it's not quite there yet, but
here's another example of some iterations, generations that once we put our model back
into Version 4 and instructed it to provide construction drawings for us it produced some
pretty interesting drawings as you can see here so I wanted to show that process of Version
4 at least in this last kind of step of workflow and so what I'm going to do is
I'm going to upload an image to work from And I've got my folder here where previously
we used an image that was colorized but I've gone ahead and desaturated it and I want to see
what it's going to produce using this image so Click the plus sign, I selected my image, and then you have to click enter for
it to actually process and upload After that you select the image, open the
original, and take the uh the HTML site and copy it and we will use that to plug back into Midjourney to prompt Version 4 to
create our architectural drawings So I'm going to start by typing "/imagine" pasting
in our image reference, and then just for ease to show you guys I want to just copy and paste what
I did before because it was producing some pretty good drawings off that so I'm going to paste
that in there conclude with "--V 4" and hit enter And while that loads, I'll
show you our 3D print model so What we do to prepare it for 3D print - These are
all individual components, and so we're going to start by 3D printing just one so I'll move this
back into place, I'm just going to select it and if I have it selected there is a plug-in for
SketchUp, if you go to file "Export STL" I believe that's what the plugin is called - I'll
find a link to it and provide in the description If I select "Export STL" it asks if it if I
want to export only the current selection and in this case I do want to, my units are
feet, yes, file format "ASCII" that's ok I want to export it, I'll save it into my folder
here, I'm just going to resave over this version "SynthArch 001" and when I go to open it At least on Windows 10 you have a 3D
Builder where you can actually view this This model is is not to scale and
it's not prepared to print quite yet, but I just wanted to show you quickly
what the process would be like The reason this program is also good we like
opening it up and here it's a quick way to make sure that the model is sealed shut, if
there were any gaps in it due to the geometry So it always prompts you at the bottom right
hand corner here to repair the the model and so it does that quickly, and then if you
file "Save" it, it'll save the model with the repaired geometry and will
be prepared and ready to print So this is just one module
that we're looking to 3D print, and uh we're looking at a couple
different methods of achieving the arch One technique is to actually flip the
structure upside down and print so that gravity is - We're using gravity to our advantage So anyway that's a quick little background on
that, and so I wanted to kind of reveal where we're at here with these drawings,
so this is the image I put in, and with Version 4 unfortunately they
can only do square images right now But these are the architectural drawings
that it is producing when we prompt it to produce you know construction
drawings, architectural drawings, and I think they're like, amazing,
they're fabulous, they look amazing They don't have a lot of,
maybe applicable details yet This one in the top left hand corner, it does
look like it's starting to add some details and some dimensions, some notations, but we're
really curious with this back and forward process Of taking these images, reflecting it in our
model, taking snapshots of the model - Here while I'm speaking I'll just upscale or do a couple
versions on 1 and 3 here and let's just upscale number 1 But, the flow going from basically what
you saw here are inspiration images doing a "Double Vaulted 3D Printed
Adobe Mud Architectural Pavilion" Building our 3D model, taking images
of the 3D model, and putting them back into Midjourney to be you know either
re-inspired or to work on some details That's a new workflow, the "Emergent" workflow
that we're looking to make progress on so Anyway, that's just a quick little
update on where we're at with that, here's sort of the high resolution
image that it produced based off that Very cool, just wanted to share
it with you guys, and I will share more progress after we get a couple of
these 3D print modules printed and assembled To see how it affects our process, and
how we want to maybe go for a redesign Definitely an interesting workflow
- Hopefully we can start to see it a little more in real world practice, or academia I think it's going to start there first, but
that's why we're pursuing a project that's not client funded and it's simply
funded with the the village and Thanks for watching, if you've got any
questions about this process or if you guys are exploring this process
as well I'd be very curious to, to see what type of progress you guys
are making and how you're using it to Either inform your design process, or
have it reflect the design process, or be inspired by images that
are produced, or reproduced so Keep in touch, put your comments below,
and let's keep making progress together Thanks, bye.
