Janet Echelman uses 3D modeling and industrial digital fabrication processes to create large scale public sculpture. In the case of the image bellow Echelman used data from a tsunami to create the form and coloration of the hanging sculpture, currently installed in Sydney, Australia.
http://www.echelman.com/sydney.html
Record Assignment 1a Screen Shot
Description: This assignment asked us to create a design algorithmically by methodically repeating the same processes on an object.
Material: handmade paper
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Record Assignment 1b Screen Shot
Description: This assignment asked us to use a bitmap image as a background and trace out an image.
Material: handmade paper
files: Record-Assignment1
Record Assignment 2a Screen Shot
Description: This assignment required us to make a box with a very specific function. This box is intended to encase and disable a hand.
Material: 1/8″ mirrored acrylic plexi
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Record Assignment 2b Screen Shot
Description: This assignment asked us to make a box intended to be a scaffolding structure for a skin made in a different material.
Material: 1/8″ MDF
Files: Compressed Box Assignments