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With a team of six individuals, we set out to respond to the prompt of active bending with piano wire as a medium: we created a system with discrete components that elicits a flexible whole. Our goals were to explore how different wire thicknesses affect bending properties of components as well as examine the behavior of the system clearly with a primitive, rigid geometry accompanied by a complex, active unit. Through creating a dynamic system of rigid and active bodies, we especially wanted to move away from the typical organized system, and instead we looked to cast a chaotic cloud through an organized jumble.

Our module is comprised of five pyramids and two sliders. There is a center pyramid, in which every point is attached to another pyramid, comprising a five-part pyramidal structure. Including the experimentation of the slider was key to achieving an understanding of how flexible this component can be. Applying a tension feature to this element gave us an opportunity to combine wire thicknesses and lengths to locate an appropriate set of active and passive components. The connection point between two pyramids are facilitated through the attachment of our active slider component. By attaching edges of the pyramids to the mobile wire within the movable loop, we can afford a basic expansion or contraction of the space between. This prototype asserts itself as the mobile asset to its structure. The movement we assigned to the object was expanding and contracting in its outer line as controlled by an unspecified user. Exploration of formation encapsulated a single-wire component that attaches itself onto a rigid structure as a symbiotic parasite.