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Int/Cont - Vera Molnár Recreation

Computational Design - 2025

Int/Cont - Vera Molnár Recreation

Built
Client
UC Berkeley - Arch 249, Computational Design
Role
Computational Designer
Year
2025
Timeline
1 Week
Type
Computational Art Recreation
Approach
Pseudocode → Grasshopper rebuild → Python → animate

Tools - Rhino + Grasshopper + Python

An algorithmic recreation of Vera Molnár's Int/Cont (1996) - rebuilt from pseudocode in Grasshopper and Python, then animated as a parametric study of the original five-panel series.

A computational-design exercise rebuilding Vera Molnár's Int/Cont (1996), a series of five acrylic works on paper exploring tensions between shape and void inside a 50 × 50 cm square. The artwork was decomposed into pseudocode, reconstructed parametrically in Grasshopper with a Python component, and then animated to extend Molnár's underlying logic into motion. How do you translate a hand-drawn 1996 acrylic series into a generative system that preserves the artist's logic - the 50 × 50 cm square, the four-quadrant grid, the rhythm of red bars and white voids - while opening it up to parametric variation and motion?

Panels rebuilt
5
Canvas (per Molnár)
50 cm
Source year
1996
Pipeline
GH + Py

The Work

Final

Parametric recreation - animated GIF from a Grasshopper slider sweep

Approach

  1. 01

    Pseudocode

    Wrote step-by-step instructions for the artwork - grid construction, bar placement rules, color and proportion - before touching any software.

  2. 02

    Grasshopper rebuild

    Reconstructed the geometry parametrically in Grasshopper using the pseudocode as the spec.

  3. 03

    Python component

    Reimplemented the same logic inside a Python component to control bar positions, lengths, and rotations from code.

  4. 04

    Animate it

    Wired sliders to position and scale, then rendered a GIF sweep - turning a static series into a continuous parametric study.

From the studio

Reference - Vera Molnár, Int/Cont (1996), five acrylic works on paper
Iteration 01 - pinwheel rotation
Iteration 02 - T-bar inversion
Iteration 03 - staggered horizontals
Iteration 04 - asymmetric L
Iteration 05 - twin verticals

Outcome

Five panels rebuilt as one parametric system, plus an animated extension that reads as a sixth, in-motion Molnár.

Credits

Recreation
Yanik Wickremasinghe
Original artwork
Vera Molnár - Int/Cont (1996)
Course
UC Berkeley Arch 249 - Computational Design

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