This week, we are trying to make patterns that can move. During class, Marcele showed us how to do a Voronoi design, and I made this pattern following:
And I made the pufferfish one:
I also tried to explore the function of making the edges curves, and this is my result:
The one with three sides having curves:
I printed the former three:
This week, we are using rhino and grasshopper in particular to learn how to do 3d modeling for wearables.
The grass hopper is like the backstage commanding platform and rhino is like the dashboard. We make and connect commands in grasshopper and then see the visual effect in rhino. in this assignment, we mainly explore several functions like mesh, remap, move and so on. And I went into plenty of obstacles:
obstacle 1:
When I was on the step of sailing my model, my polyline shows numbers but the video doesn’t, and that was because I flatten my components, which I believe means I return curves and surfaces to the original squished 3-D shape, so that I get numbers of lines.
obstacle 2:
When I want to move my points, I found that they were moving in a really small distance even when I use much bigger values than the video. Later discovered that it was because at the very first step there was an important move of Selecting NO here!!!
Other than these, it all went pretty smoothly. My final result is like this:
This week, we mainly focus on the making of 3d modeling on Rhino. During the class, Marcele showed us how to make a bracelet using Rhino and shared with us several examples.
I tried with the example, and as I process with the shape of a open-ended circle I thought why not test with different functions in Rhino?
I did several attempts:
But I eventually only printed this one for it has the pattern of plant cells and fibers and that I think may be useful for the following project.
I started with building three circles and adjusted the middle circle to better fit the size of the wrist, like this:
The problem that I encountered was that I was able to connect the three circles smoothly with the loft function, So that I could only make graphs on the two surfaces separately. It would look more organic if I print it in green, but I used the red material and realized the problem after I saw the result. But this definitely can be improved in the future. And the size went wrong a bit after printed: it was much smaller than I thought. It is because of the dimensions I forgot to alter.
A little surprise: it can be used as a security locker for water bottle:
It’s impossible to open the bottle after having this on, so safe for going to bars!
wait, I can’t open it either, the size is too perfect…
Which reminds me that I can’t design a bracelet with a EXACTLY perfect size, I need to leave some space for enabling people to take it off.
I guess I need to buy another bottle of water😭
For project 2, we try to explore different materials and effects for our final project. We mainly divide the techniques into 2 parts: inflatables and servos.
I was mainly exploring the servos and Jelena was in charge of the inflatables. Our initial concept was “the powerful women”, featuring women by the symbol of flower. In our first project, we were too implicit in terms of showing the conflict of the identity of women and the fierceness of flower, the dress still looked elegant. Only the collar part showed the fierceness. So in this project, we really want to make aggressive images and obvious conflicts.
I was trying to make a flower that looks elegant when it’s closed, but when it opens, it looks dangerous and aggressive. I want to make this mechanism but encountered many obstacles:
1, the position
When I first and second made it, I was confused with the position. My first prototype was made with a cardboard and rubber-band. The draft was like this:
But it was too fragile so that it was hard for me to see the effect.
After asking Andy and Marcele, I realized that the mechanism that I imagined couldn’t work, so I tried another way with wooden sticks. But I mistakenly missed the position and made an umbrella instead. It was like this:
So I turned to the paper art, and that did work out well.
The future development for this part is that I need to make a more solid version instead of the hand-folded paper work.
2, the elasticity
As you can probably see from the video, the elasticity of the flower, the extent of which that the flower can blossom and inner part can pop out is very limited. This is also a part that we’ll need to consider.
Maybe we can use a different mechanism that is having a lifting force to lift the pedals, and then show the inner part.
The flowers will be duplicated on the whole body.
Jelena made these inflatables for the collar part, which was a big success, and Marcele also suggested that we can put these two kinds of inflatables together to make a better effect. And we will also duplicate these inflatables many places on the body.
(the pictures and videos are not loading successfully, I’ve put them all in this folder:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dMUgHjSqsIafGu6Mg6Q_Z3gavGhODVvI?usp=share_link)