At the recommendation of Hart during desk crit I made several attempts at intentional manipulation of the voronoi cell structure in order to gain a better intuitive understanding of how one might best implement the system within an architectural site. The development of my improvisation is detailed below:
FIRST ATTEMPT
I started with a simple line, and split the radian circle into 5 equal parts as starting organization.
I then went on to place points at the extremeties and at the intersection point in the center.
This results in a very simple voronoi cellular structure when closed within a unit square.
Aiming to find deeper complexity within this unitary ingredient, I proceeded to mirror the component across its 5 pairs of extremeties and now had six times as many points from which to generate the voronoi cellular structure.
The result produced and interesting and more complex honeycomb-like pentagon structure
I proceeded with three more rounds of the same pattern of mirroring the previous steps sub-structure at the 5 exterior bounds in order to investigate how this recursive pattern growth might behave the same or differently as it grew.
The new pattern contains the old pattern within the very structure of its makeup, yet also mirrors the old pattern in the aggregate as well.
This repeating aggregate nature can be seen when all 5 versions have been vertically aligned to the same orientation.
In essence, I have created a voronoi fractal. Interesting voids do emerge within the larger versions of the system, however they do so within a 5-sided regular honeycomb pattern. The symmetry seems less than perfectly well adapted to irregular site conditions and programmatic needs.
VARIATIONS
I first tried reducing the complexity of the original component to see if there might be unexpected complexity hidden within a milder base, but found that merely a true repeating honeycomb emerges.
I then tried a multiple of this base-3 system, and deviated to a base 6 fractal component, in the hopes that the two systems of equal factors might be able to fit in a conjoined interlocking manner in some future form. Again a simple honeycomb fractal of a different shape emerged.
MUTATION
Looking at the second set of investigation in the previous round, I noticed the artifact of the voids that appeared in base-6 that were not present in base-3. This was a side effect of the manner in which expedited the mirror process in production, where I failed to rigorously place a point at the end of each branch in the second step of mirroring that then propogated down the system with each round of sophistication.
I then looked into the idea of mutation through successive random removal through each recursive round of reflection in order to see what non-regular patterns might emerge from the now pseudo-fractal, but still rigorous voronoi pattern.
Each round I would remove just one more leg from the underlying pattern of lines used to derive points at the places of intersection.
While the overall shape shows variation and deviation, the pattern is still composed of a regular adherence to the 60 or 120 angled of the base origination.
Therefore I decided to attempt a different method of mutation through varying both the angles and lengths to the 6 sides of the base component, rather than removal.
The human eye seems to be able to recognize some sort of underlying pattern yet can't quite parst the total meaning. Several different areas of different size, composition and orientation emerge, perhaps ready for specialization according to site and programmatic needs.
Minor variation can produce substantial difference within an overarching grammar of forms when increased through recursive rounds of sophistication. The last round of mutation improvisation contained just two: angle and length modification. There were several different manners of change I did not yet attempt, but in differing orders of application through the rounds of recursive implementation, a wide range of different possible pattern structure would surely emerge.
