Platform Bench
Measurements:
H 14" L 72" D 18.5"
George Nelson’s Platform Bench (1946) is one of the great icons of mid-century modernism, this bench remains a beautiful, functional combination of wood and steel. For Herman Miller’s influential design director, utility was as important as beauty, and his spare rectangular bench is the result of this belief. It serves equally well as table, platform base or seating, depending on need and situation. No wonder it’s been called timeless; something this functional never dates.
Modeling
The modeling of the prototype in PyPlasm and the final model in Plasm.js has been slightly different for the Platform Bench, due to the lack of the MKPOL function in Plasm.js, present in PyPlasm.
To create the shape of the Bench's base were combined various quadrilaterals generated by the MKRECT function. Under the base are located the bench's foots, created with the ROTATIONAL_SOLID function.
The upper part of the bench has been modeled using simple CUBOIDs, properly duplicated and translated.
To prevent graphic glitches, CUBOIDs do not intersect.
Model
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