OBDF 210

  Building Our Reversed Engineered Object Initial Thoughts  I began by building the carabiner part of my mechanical system, and I soon realized that I was right in assuming that it would be more feasible to model only one of the items between the carabiner and the Grigri device.      The calipers were also a bit of an issue for me. I've used them before but years ago, and I was feeling confident I could remember the correct way to use them. As it turned out, I needed some help from google and YouTube tutorials, and I still don't think I measured things very exactly. Note to self: buy digital calipers.    Building Strategy     I measured my carabiner device as best as I could with the calipers and created a layer of black construction lines as seen in the screenshot above.   I then used those measurements to trace the outline of the carabiner. From there I used the Pipe tool to create the main body.       Th...

  Reverse Engineered Object Selections Our next project is to reverse engineer a preexisting object and 3D model it in Rhino. Using calipers, we will measure our objects and then input the data into our built models. A requirement is that we choose a "mechanical" object that has at least one moving part or components that fit together. Below are my three choices for a "mechanical" object to 3D model. Metronome     My first object is a metronome. I think the body of this object would be easy to model, and it's made out of an aesthetically pleasing material to render. The internal mechanical components would probably be straight forward to model due to the fact that they are made out of basic shapes. However, this object can't be completely taken apart, and so getting exact measurements might prove to be challenging.      Grigri device and Caribiner     This object is actually more of a mechanical system than a singular object. I am consid...

  Strawberry 3D Scan and Model I decided on a strawberry as my organic object to 3D scan and model. Above are simple photographs of my object, and below is the video of the 3D scan. I took around 80 photos of the strawberry, but there is still a lack of differentiation between the strawberry and the paper. I'm not sure why that kept happening, but regardless I think it took a great scan of the detail of the berry. Next, the steps I took to model the berry in Rhino. Overall I think it went well, except that the two halves of the strawberry didn't perfectly match up after I mirrored them. As well, I wasn't sure how to delete the bounding box after I used it. Step One I uploaded photos of my object and traced two "rails" and a curve for the sweep tool to follow.   Step Two Next, I used the sweep2 tool to create a body, then mirrored it over to get two halves.   Step Three Then I went back and made a 2D tracing of the leaves using the polyline tool.   Step...

  Final Project Brief  Phase One: Initial Concept      This project began centered around the idea of creating a process-based work. When thinking about the fabrication process of laser cutting, I'm reminded of a heavily industrialized process; kind of a "cold" medium. There is what feels like a large separation between a laser cut item versus an item that is hand carved or cut. Having these associations, I wanted to choose a material that represented the opposite and create a final piece of work that highlighted that juxtaposition.       I decided to go in the direction of "chaos vs control" and highlight a chaotic, man-made effect next to a very controlled machine-made effect. I sourced a collection of 6 decorative plates because they represented a domestic, feminine material. Two of the plates I would shatter, and then I would reglue them together, trace the shatter lines and import those into Rhino, and laser cut the same lines onto two o...

  Project Progress     I began by measuring the physical plates on a sheet of paper to obtain diameters and thicknesses.        I then input this data into Rhino and created 4 circles, then lofted them together to create a cohesive surface.      Next, I uploaded a reference photo of the designs on the plate and lined it up carefully with the lofted surface. I traced the design using a new layer color for each part of the design. I'm not sure if that was the right choice but I wasn't sure how to get multiple colors, and I'd like to know how to fill in the colors of the design so it's not just linework.        Once I had the plates rendered, I broke two plates by shattering them against the floor.      I then glued the plates back together. (One shard is missing because the glue wouldn't dry, but I will complete the glue job eventually.)     I took these exact photos and imported ...

  Project Material Render I rendered six plates in Rhino, positioned on a wall like they will be in the final install. Above, a rendered image of the plates before any "damage." The material is porcelain, and the designs are paint.  Above is the single plate that I created (then would later copy for the other 5) as well as the layers that I used.  Back view of the plate, to show depth.     

 Project 1 Week 2 - Mood Board Precedent Work     My inspiration for this project comes from an artist I referenced in my mini presentation, Catherine Burgess. Her work involves cold, industrial materials like metal, processed and fabricated in a way that the finished piece appears like something handmade or like a less industrial material such as ceramic.      When thinking about the fabrication process of laser cutting, I'm reminded of a heavily industrialized process; kind of a "cold" medium. There is what feels like a large separation between a laser cut item versus an item that is hand carved or cut. Having these associations, I wanted to choose a material that represented the opposite.      I decided on painted porcelain tea plates as my material. Though these plates aren't necessarily handmade, I have strong associations to decorative plates as something that is warm and feminine, and an item that is oftentimes displayed in homes ...

  2D Mosaic I chose my t shirt design to create the 2D mosaic in Rhino because I liked the mixed elements of straight geometric lines and also a floral pattern.   I first began by locking the image of the shirt design in Rhino and then creating a separate layer for the picture. I then sectioned off a square so that I had an area of focus in the design, this I made into a separate layer also. I used mostly the line and polyline tool, and sometimes the ellipse shape and the trim tool. After outlining my set area, I put the design on another new layer and then also copied a new "tile" so that I could return to the original design if need be.  I continued copying the tile and then rotating it to fit so that it slightly overlapped and so that the straight lines from tile to tile wouldn't match up perfectly.  The resulting pattern is one I really like; because of the rectangular border shape around each small tile, it overall ends up looking like a roll of film at fir...