Futurist Forms
After Le Cheval Majeur
[ Side-by-side: Duchamp-Villon original and procedural reconstruction ]
Side-by-side: Duchamp-Villon original and procedural reconstruction
Process video — from reference analysis to procedural rebuild
[ Detail — mechanical joint abstraction ]
Detail — mechanical joint abstraction
About this work
This work reconstructs Duchamp-Villon's 1914 sculpture Le Cheval Majeur (The Large Horse) using entirely procedural methods in SideFX Houdini. Rather than manually modelling the form, the reconstruction derives the sculpture from a set of rules extracted through close visual analysis of the original.
The rules encode the geometric logic Duchamp-Villon employed: the compression of equine anatomy into interlocking mechanical volumes, the synthesis of organic curvature with industrial geometry. The procedural system "rediscovers" the form through these constraints.
The project is both a homage and a method-experiment — testing whether art-historical sculptural logic can be meaningfully captured in algorithmic form.
Technical Details
- Software
- SideFX Houdini 20.5
- Technique
- Procedural reconstruction from photogrammetric reference
- Source
- Duchamp-Villon, Le Cheval Majeur (1914)
- Render
- Karma XPU
- Research context
- Futurism-Proceduralism investigation