Algorithmic lineages
Karsten Schmidt
Open tools for geometry, visualisation, fabrication, and generative design.
About
Karsten Schmidt’s public projects centre on reusable computational tools for geometry, visualisation, fabrication, and generative work. His repositories and project archive document a practice in which writing the tools is inseparable from making with them. [1]
Why they matter here. For Algorithmics, Schmidt is a reference at the level of infrastructure: small, composable tools can make many kinds of drawing possible without prescribing one visual result.
Selected works and methods
- toxiclibs
- thi.ng/umbrella
- thi.ng/geom
- thi.ng/genart-api
- composable geometry and fabrication tools