whozits & whatzits galore.

For our hollow hybrid we had several difficulties, especially on our first draft of the hybrid. This is Clarice's concept objects.  This was the several drafts we had trying to combine Clarice's onion bulb shape with my twisty cage looking shape. We had a little bit of a hard time combing these two since there were a lot of protruding edges, uneven sections. They wouldn't join easily since my shape would only go through naked edges. Our second draft a more of a success. We instead combined my teardrop shape with a piece of her jagged rose and Boolean difference it. In the end we got the cool looking teardrop crystal shape. The filament the we had made look better since it was see through with a shiny finish. It really made it look more like a crystal. If we had overlooked our hybrid again, we would have stretched out to make it taller so there wouldn't be any steep lines on it. nbb

The final FINAL project, our group decided a zipper looking vase from both our hybrid hollows. This was our initial sketch of how we wanted it to look like. At first we wanted to take the bottom of Vanessa and Kyle's project and Boolean Difference it with our water drop hollow to make something like a cake with a piece of it cut out. But after trying out many ways to combine it, we couldn't make the bottom work. So then we took another part of Vanessa and Kyle's project which was the smaller pillars. But since it was slanted, and we didn't want it topple over, we cut it half and stretched it out. This is our final out come of out project. It's simple but I think it looks pretty cool.

For final part of the paper craft project, I refined the prototype of the cassette tape.  prototype sketch For the laser cutting part of the project, I only had the main outline and the circles of the cassette cut out and had the blue dotted lines for the folded lines. I also added the back two holes on the tape so the tape shows both on the back and front.  The rest of the bolts, roll of tape and the red cover I cut by hand. This is how the final turned out. I think the most difficult part of this project was gluing them all together. Parts of it, especially the front part of cassette tape (bottom center), would not fully stick together.

In this new project, the objective is to make 3D hollow forms that could be printed on the 3D printer.  There are only two constraints for this assignment, the forms must be single perimeter and self-supporting.  So I made the bottom of the shapes bigger than the top to make a triangular structure (which is the strongest form) so it is able to stand on its own. So this is probably one of the coolest but also hardest project so far in this class. I actually had a pretty hard time making shapes that didn't end up inverting in the middle. And some of the shapes I had first had in mind ended up looking pretty... distorted. Other than that, it was pretty fun experimenting on how to create the forms.

For this project, we had to create a 3D paper cut of something significant to our lives. I wanted to go a little more retro and chose on creating a cassette tape since music is a big part of my life; singing, playing instruments, making music are something important to me. For my prototype, I just went with a simple rectangle outline and cut out the smaller rectangle and circles where the tape would be seen in. The hardest part of the prototype was the circles. cutting them out was painful. During the critiques, it was mentioned how I should add more little details and make it more look like a cassette. Instead of simple circles, I should get thin strips of paper and roll them up to make the tape. For the circular area that hold up the tape, I could roll up thicker pieces of paper so it goes through the tape instead.

In next project in 3D objects, we are moving on to papercraft. Papercraft is an art form that uses the medium of paper or card and turning it into 2D or 3D forms. Out of all the articles on the different types of paper art, the illuminated cut paper light boxes caught my attention the most. Before this, I was interested on making paper art myself, and while browsing the internet for inspiration, I came across Hari & Deepti's pieces prior to this project. I was drawn to their work because of how beautiful and simple they were. Also just looking at those light boxes bring me some kind of peace; like that feeling when you're out stargazing. So when I saw they were included in the list, I knew I had to write about them. Hari & Deepti  believe that “Paper is brutal in its simplicity as a medium. It demands the attention of the artist while it provides the softness they need to mold it in to something beautiful. It is playful, light, colorless and colorful. It is minimal ...

This is a 3D scan of a lotion bottle that I have that is shaped like a cute little house. I didn't have a lot of things I could think of that can fit the scanner, but luckily I found this lotion container last minute, it was small enough and actually had some shape and texture to it.