French design duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have worked with US manufacturers Skyline Design on a collection of glass panels emblazoned with colourful geometric patterns created using code.

The collection, named Oblique and Chevron, has been designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec to explore how colours can subtly alter in tone when iterated in different patterns.
It comprises four translucent glass designs: Oblique Regular, Oblique Bold, Chevron Stroke and Chevron Fill, that each feature sheer, intersecting beams of colour with dark outlines ? a visual effect that the brothers liken to the lead borders on a stained-glass window.

"[The lines] provide contrast and reinforce light and transparency into the panel," said the Bouroullecs. "Traditional stained glass was designed to evoke a sense of magic and wonder among medieval churchgoers. The Bouroullecs bring the same otherworldly and nearly mystical sense to more abstract patterns," added Skyline Design.

To develop the palette for the collection, the pair took photos of everyday scenes, ranging from oceans and forests, to kids playing in a field wearing vivid sports jerseys.
"The project started by wandering, by walking out to capture in photographs the sensation of colour and light ? we believe that light is a matter of variation, of multiple pieces of information that your eyes build into a unique panorama," said the designers.

They ran the resulting images through a computer script that ...