Translating Song Visualizations Into 3D-Printed Car Speaker Covers

Music-lover Roman Plaghki is a design engineer at 3D printing company Materialise. Tasked with developing customized offerings for their automotive clients, Plaghki and his team began looking at using Materialise's technology to produce 3D-printed speaker covers. But rather than designing arbitrary grids, they wanted to leverage technology to inform the design. By using computers to visualize the waveforms generated by specific songs, the team was able to translate those values—amplitude,...