I made a small file in Rhino and purely cut it out of Stonehenge Printmaking paper. I wanted to not make fold lines and strong cuts because I felt that this mini assignment really influenced me to create something out of hand and leaving some sense of ‘human error’ in the design. I also felt the small cute form of an F-14 Tomcat, the most decorated fighter in history, was interesting because of it’s smooth translation from war machine to toy.
123D Catch of Room
I made an attempt at generating a model of my very messy room. The following is a screenshot of the model generated by 123D Catch from 50 stills. The .obj file is too large to post to the blog, but is available for distribution upon request.
CNC Holder 2.5 Axis
This holder is designed possibly as a fruit basket or table ornament. The joints are waffle notch joints. I wanted to experiment between the CNC router and vacuum former in the dFAB lab. I was impressed with the variety of forms that developed out of each pocket of the waffled structure as the plastic formed and cooled.
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- Base Mold for Holder
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- Waffle Render
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- Plastic Warp Detail
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- Grid of Light Warp
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- Plastic Warp Detail
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- Underside MDF Waffle
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- Underside Warp Detail
3D Printer Flow Chains
My 3D print works were explorations into the Rhino 4.0 command “FlowAlongSrf”. This unique command takes three dimensional geometry and uses a reference surface to warp that same geometry into the shape of the target surface. My first goal was to create complex interlocking chains to print in plastic. After that I decided to push the limits of the plaster printer through the same process of warping geometries to other surfaces.
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- Plastic Chain 1
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- Chain 2
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- Chain 2
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- Plaster Side 1
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- Plaster Side 2
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- Plaster Closeup
2 Skinned “Box”
The creation is laser cut cardboard and acrylic. The cardboard rotates inside the acrylic to reveal a storage cavity. A stand was created as an improvement to the overall design.
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- Acrylic Structure
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- Cardboard Inner Case
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- Acrylic Outer Shell
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- Complete Render
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- Light Properties Cardboard
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- Light Properties Acrylic
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- Closed on Stand
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- Open on Stand
2D Laser Cut Designs
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- 2D Curves from image. Bose Headset
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- 2D Algorithmic Design with Circles
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- Mirror Render
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- Artis’s Reflection
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- Mirror Cut and Photographed
Waffling Definition
I got through 5/7 of these grasshopper video tutorials from Digital Toolbox and I’ve attached the results. Feel free to pick up where I’ve left off.
Folding + Origami inspired design
PEOPLE and COMMUNITIES
- CurvedFolding: “a place where we can work together towards an open CAD standard, initially based on a quad-mesh geometry, for representing and modelling curved folding geometries…and show what we have crafted in paper, modelled in CAD and then fabricated”
- LiveComponents-NY: Blog by Seoul-based architect Hyoung-gul Kook; wide range advanced Rhino/Grasshopper-folding-related work; shares step-by-step tutorials on how to re-make GH definitions
- Space Symmetry Structure: Blog by London-based architect Daniel Piker; wide orange of advanced Grasshopper and Kangaroo definitions for attractors, origami, etc.
- Brian Chan: “the maker of anything” including a range of origami projects
EXAMPLES for RHINO and GRASSHOPPER
- Cairo Patterns: transforms a surface into 4 or 5 sided Cairo Patterns
- Paper Fold: models simple folding of a single plane of paper [look for “paperfold.ghx”]
- Rigid Origami Folding: models the folding action of a strip of paper
- Origami pyramid: models the folding action of a flat plane into a pyramid [look for “origamipyramid.ghx”]
- Origami 4 point Star: fully models construction of a fourpoint star in Grasshopper [look for “Origami4PointStar.ghx”]
The Grasshopper and Rhinoscript examples from class are here.
TOOLS
- Grasshopper (parametric design) and Kangaroo (“Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, optimization and form-finding directly within Grasshopper) for Rhino
- Tomohiro Tochi: mathematician and origami expert, makes three simple and powerful programs for modeling origami folding
- Pepakura Designer: affordable commercial application for creating folding patterns from 3d models
BOOKS
- Check-out Ali’s ORIGAMI Books wish-list on Amazon
OTHER
- RoboFold: Design house focusing on CNC-folded metal and more
- ShadowFolds: documents the work of origami master Chris Palmer
- Interactive Rings Tessellation: rings-type origami tessellation
- Paulo Taborda Barreto: extended Origami art
- Brief History of Curved Folding by Erik and Martin Demaine
- Christy Oates: Folding lamps, furniture and more
Grasshopper Definitions
Supports and aestetics using a cairo function
Boy Surface creation
Extrusion for bosses
all of these are found at Rhinotuts
http://rhinotuts.com/tag/grasshopper/
There are also really nice tutorials that are short and for beginners. You should definitely go here and check some of these tutorials out.