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
(file included after the next assignment)
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
(file included after the next assignment)
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
Assignment One: Algorithm
Description: Pattern of a nut is repeated through rotation, translation scaling and iteration.
Material: To be cut out of 240 grit sandpaper.
Assignment One: Real Trace
Description: A contour trace of a slug taken from a top down photograph.
Materials: To be cut out of a paper kitchen towel or large sponge sheet.
Assignment 2 - One: Box made from One Material
Description: Design for a functional, medium load bearing pencil pot.
Material: To be cut out of 1/4″ MDF
Assignment 2 - Two: Box made from 2 materials
Description: These are “soft bricks” made from two materials, plywood and cloth, using a basic interlocking frame as a skeleton, and wrapped with canvas. The canvas is detailed with the holes typically of standard building bricks. There will be ties cut out to facilitate tying of the corners. These hypothetical building materials attempt to subvert the notion of anchorage, heft, permanence, solidity, and strength that one normally associates with bricklaying and housebuilding.
Materials: To be cut out of 1/4″ birch ply and unbleached cotton canvas tarp.
Please find all four files in the zip folder contained here: assignment 1 and 2
I took a picture of my mouth and iterated the transformation in Photoshop. Then I traced it in Inkscape. Then I imported to Illustrator in order to import into Rhino (because Rhino surprisingly does .ai but not .svg). I chose a spiral because I find spirals tend read the same way in 3D as they do in 2D, so this sort of graffiti stencil-type image would also make sense as a physical object.
This is a trace of my hands making a bull or goat shadow puppet. I used the same workflow of camera->PS->Inkscape->Illustrator->Rhino. The two pieces correspond to my two hands. They are meant to be cut out of slightly differently-colored acrylic in order to read as a contiguous silhouette while still hinting at the origin of the shape.
CONVERSATION STARTERS [for meditations on who how when and why contemporary art intersects with cnc/cad/cam/digital fabrication]
Please refer to this document for hours and policies for the 2012 CMU Doherty Hall lasercutter: hours & policies.
This is a simple geometric box that I created by drawing a sphere in Rhino then changing it to a mesh with a very small number of polygons.
I created planes from the mesh and unrolled the planes to form a template. Then I added in tabs so that I could fold it up and glue it together.
Algorithmic design for laser cutting:
Other design based on an object from life:
I used my large, red scarf as the basis for this design. I really like it.