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articulated per foot movement. Finally for comfort, the heel has to be thickened.
These newly constructed objects will serve as the seeds or targets of the hybridi-
zation process that generates new formal variations with exact precision. Using the
Morpher Modifier that was explained above, the students uploaded these objects into
the empty channels.
figure 5
- Hybridization
This process of hybridization entailed producing entities that negotiate between dif-
ferent conditions, hybrids that respond to certain criteria more than others.
Students immediately
started realizing that some
of their performance crite-
ria contradict each other.
For instance, obtaining a
shoe that performs at a
maximum speed, control,
and comfort is impossi-
ble as shown in the dia-
gram below. The resultant
object is too distorted, to
an extent that it can not
function as a shoe any-
more.
figure 6