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Unified Equation Driven Pot Designer

A project log for Equation-Driven Pots

Equation-Driven Pots is a generative design project that utilizes mathematical equations to create functional, 3D-printable plant pots.

arkadiArkadi 3 days ago0 Comments

I’ve rolled a lot of the project’s browser-based design work into a new unified tool:

Equation Driven Pot Designer https://arkadiraf.github.io/Equation-Driven-Pots/

This is now the main browser GUI for the Equation-Driven Pots project. Instead of splitting the workflow across multiple separate tools, the unified interface brings the core design system together in one place:

What makes this update especially exciting is that the unified GUI now also includes the two more experimental branches of the project directly in the interface:

Field Modifier

Field Modifier changes where the field is sampled before the form is evaluated.

In practice, this makes it possible to create things like:

This is useful when the object should still behave like a pot or vessel, but the sampled structure should drift or rotate in a more dynamic way.

Field Distortion

Field Distortion changes where the generated body exists in space after the field has already been evaluated.

That opens the door to more physical and sculptural behaviors such as:

So the project is no longer only about defining a radius field and exporting a pot. It now supports both:

That feels like an important step forward for the project.

The unified tool is also where I’m now bringing together the more practical object side of the work:


Equation-Driven Pots started as a way to generate printable forms from math. It’s now gradually becoming a broader equation-based 3D design system, while still staying grounded in printable objects and browser-based experimentation.

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