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Engineer turns 400-year-old Plano bur oak into parametric wood sculpture
Summary
Engineer Steven Sieg Miller used computer-generated wave simulations and months of woodworking to create a parametric art piece from the quadricentennial bur oak that fell in Plano during a 2023 storm after the city asked artists to preserve the tree's legacy.
Engineer Steven Sieg Miller has created a parametric wood sculpture from the quadricentennial bur oak that fell in Plano during a storm in 2023 after the city of Plano asked artists to preserve the tree’s legacy.
The project converts computer-generated wave patterns into a grid of points that guided precision cutting, sanding and assembly of the burr oak wood, Sieg Miller said. “I started out creating a basic program that simulates the the ripples of a wave,” he said.
The effort began after the tree — described in…
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