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Ralf Jacobs' Incredible Harmonograph: Furniture That Can Draw Patterns

By Rain Noe - April 16

in Furniture Design | Fine Art

Ralf Jacobs is a Netherlands-based artist who works "at the intersection of art, design, science, and signal." He invented this incredible Harmonograph, a piece of furniture that can draw patterns:

He's designed the "hinge" mechanism to be frictionless, which gives the drawing utensil a lot of momentum:

"Underlying my practice is the belief that art is a form of signal processing," Jacobs writes. "Each work is a relic of interaction: a transmission captured, a behavior observed, a pattern retrieved from noise."

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