The picture illustrates very clearly the problem here: how to fit the tabletop to the stand? By using a monstrously complicated join pattern!
How can one create such a complex pattern? Designer Daniel Dendra used audio from Cairo streets to generate the intricate patterns, and then mapped them first to the tabletop and then a mirror image to the stand using standard CNC equipment. The two then fit together “perfectly”. Amazing!
Via BLDG BLOG , anOtherArchitect and Flickr (Hat tip to Micah)
My design prof calls this sort of thing "self locating", because you can only fit the parts together in one way that makes sense.
On an artistic note, I really like how the look of it turned out. Very cool.