The Vargov®Design generative 3D configurator

Choosing bespoke lighting usually goes like this: the architect finds a suitable composition in the catalogue, writes an email, describes the size and density in words — and waits. A day later a rendering arrives. Something is off: too many elements, the silhouette is wrong. Another email, another day.

The configurator removes that correspondence. The composition is assembled straight in the browser, in a few minutes, and is immediately visible in three dimensions.

What it does

You set a catalogue article and the cloud's dimensions in millimetres — the engine pulls in the element's real sizes, its wattage and its three-dimensional form. Then comes the shape of the composition itself: cube, sphere, dome, cone, cylinder, pyramid, cascade, ring, wave, spiral, drop, lens, funnel, frame, arc, serpentine, helix, tiers, bowl, wedge or bioform — twenty-one options.

Density is airy, medium, dense — or an exact number of elements. Layout vertical, horizontal or mixed; rotation random, from the centre or on a regular grid; tilt on any axis from −90° to +90°. Two articles can be mixed in one composition at a chosen ratio.

Colour comes from the factory RAL catalogue — 210 shades searchable by code and name, plus the brand's white and gold. There is deliberately no custom palette or eyedropper: the specification must carry a colour the workshop can actually match.

A layout that does not lie

What matters in generative assembly is not a pretty picture but physical honesty. Neither elements nor cables intersect. Each element's cable is checked against its real fixing point — a socket on some forms, a hole in the glass on others — and against the true silhouette of its neighbours, taken from the model itself. The rule is verified automatically before every release.

One configuration always yields the same layout: a colleague opening your link sees exactly the same thing. A regenerate button offers another variant at the same density.

Ribbons have their own engine: ten articles are built not as a cloud of elements but as a continuous ribbon of glass tubes on a frame — its own plasticity, its own length and a colour transition along it.

The figures an installer needs

The configurator shows the number of elements, the cloud's actual dimensions, the lowest point below the ceiling, a breakdown by size, total wattage — and the weight of the composition, calculated automatically from its content.

Weight is not a reference figure. It decides which anchor holds the suspension and whether the slab needs reinforcing. That number used to be worked out by email once the content was agreed; now it is there from the start, alongside the silhouette.

What you can take away

IFC4 for BIM: lengths in millimetres, every fixing point a separate object carrying its own type and load. The model is built for the ceiling height set in the “Ceiling height, mm” field next to the IFC button (2700 mm by default): fixing points on the ceiling, origin on the floor. A PDF specification with content, mass, power, mounting, lead time and warranty, and a QR code for the configuration itself. A tender sheet for purchasing and customs. The DXF drawing for AutoCAD is for internal use only: the brand's production and dealers. A 3D model of the composition in max and fbx for your own visualisation. Saved projects live in the browser itself, with no account, and the link carries the full state of the configuration.

The composition can be tried on in your own room from a phone: USDZ on iOS, GLB on Android. The interface runs in eight languages, Arabic right-to-left included.

How it differs from a typical configurator

Real products stand in the scene. The forms are taken from production models — with the real thickness of the parts, the sockets and the points where the cable arrives on the shop floor. Not icons, not placeholder spheres.

The composition is generated, not picked from a list. The engine lays elements out through the volume of the chosen shape, watching the silhouette and the gaps; given a variant number it reproduces the composition bit for bit.

The brand's rules are built in and checked automatically. The cable never crosses glass — a ray test against the mesh triangles; bodies never touch; the cone's slope runs straight from the top tier to the tip. Guards run these checks before every release.

Mass is derived from geometry: shells by wall thickness, sheet by its own geometry, cast pieces by volume — and reconciled with factory shipments.

How much there is

The configurator holds hundreds of lighting and decorative compositions. Those that open with a full calculation export an IFC4 model, a PDF specification and a tender sheet straight away. Layout density is calibrated against actual orders. Every article in the configurator has its own page in Russian and English, and the exact current figures are on the configurator page of the site, where they are computed from its data.

An outside opinion

The 3D configurator was accepted and judged at Awwwards — the international platform that selects the world's best websites on design, usability, content and creativity. Status: Nominee 2026. For a tool doing narrow work for a narrow audience, that confirms it is comfortable to use for an outsider too.

Where to open it

Outside Russia — vargov.design. Within Russia — configurator.vargov.ru.

A finished composition can be sent to the brand's engineer straight from the configurator. Press “Get a quote” and choose Telegram, WhatsApp or email: the request text is filled in for you — just press “Send”. The reply will come back through the same channel.

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