It's not that this studio's work doesn't have value - but so did all the previous pieces that inspired this studio's work, and so did the Japanese designer's pi

It's not that this studio's work doesn't have value - but so did all the previous pieces that inspired this studio's work, and so did the Japanese designer's piece that was (plausibly) inspired by their work. I think legal threats over something like this are detrimental to fields of design that naturally evolve through mutation and transformation; nobody is inventing architecture from scratch each time. Also, to be clear, by "small geometric patterns" I mean the matches this article is pointing to, like this[0], not either of the works as a whole. Some of the highlighted snippets initially appear to be a more substantial region, but then on closer inspection only match in a broad sense and not on any specific details, like the radial petals[1]. [0]: https://i.imgur.com/eAXYs55.png https://i.imgur.com/eAXYs55.png [1]: https://i.imgur.com/dxPcG2t.png https://i.imgur.com/dxPcG2t.png