Futurist Forms
Synthetic Continuity I
[ Hero image — front view of sculpture ]
Hero image — front view of sculpture
[ Detail — surface topology close-up ]
Detail — surface topology close-up
Turntable render showing full form from all angles
About this work
Synthetic Continuity I is the opening work in a series exploring Boccioni's concept of "physical transcendentalism" — the idea that a sculpture should capture not just form but the atmosphere that binds it to its environment.
The work was generated through a procedural system in SideFX Houdini that simulates how a solid body might deform under sustained directional force. Velocity fields, curvature-driven displacement, and temporal blending produce a form that appears frozen mid-motion — a single frame extracted from a continuous transformation.
The title references synthetic continuity as used in Futurist theory: the merging of an object with the space it moves through.
Technical Details
- Software
- SideFX Houdini 20.5
- Technique
- VEX velocity fields, SOP-based deformation
- Polycount
- ~2.4M triangles
- Render
- Karma XPU, 4K resolution
- Physical output
- Available as 3D print (SLA resin)