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Designer uses algorithm to genetically breed … chairs

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Habraken figured there had to be a more scientific way to design the ultimate chair. “I wondered if I could breed the perfect chair, like we try to breed the perfect thoroughbred,” he says. His most recent project, Chairgenics, is an investigation into what would happen if you took the best features of the world’s most iconic chairs and blended them together to create a totally new form. Would it be possible to design the perfect chair through genetic breeding?
via Wired

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