Milestone Projects

 Milestone Projects

Voxel Art (Peggy's Cove)

Castle Project (Floating Castle)

Coaster (Peter the Horse)

Hollow Form (Worm)

3D Printed Hollow Form Object: The Hybrid

 

3D Printed Hollow Form Object: The Hybrid

For the group project, I had the pleasure of working with Harleen! After getting sorted out, we started reviewing our solo hollow form projects and brainstormed what qualities we liked in each other's works. A couple of our original designs weren’t self-supporting, so it was easy to knock out a few options and narrow down what we wanted. After selecting the favorites, we decided to make the form of our object look like my previous “worm” model but maintain the "swirl & hole” qualities of Harleen’s works. We also thought that drooloops would be an interesting challenge and make the object overall more interesting. 

Here are some sketches of different hybrid designs! (more on Harleen's blog post)

 

The initial work period class Harleen and I were taught about Grasshopper and how to incorporate programming language to form our drooloops. It was incredibly confusing, and we ended up going back to fix it as too much of the drooloops extruded to the outside of the object instead of staying on the insides. 

During the production process we had an even split of work. The last class we had to fix a lot of the work on our Grasshopper code and ending up completely redoing it!!! Most of the class we’d either work on the same computer swapping based on who was better at what task on rhino, or we’d both be on separate computers with a freshly shared rhino file trying to problem-solve something that wasn’t working. We had a lot of support from Bryan for the drooloops and figuring out how Grasshopper works without any previous knowledge.

cool render :)

With the drooloops it might have some errors, but (since Bryan said it looked okay) theoretically it should hold up relatively well in the 3D printer!  

Overall I think the project was a success! There were lots of ups and downs especially with the technical stuff, but it turned out okay in the end :)