Name Rosie Gao
Instructor Eric Parren
Perspective and Context
Rueben Margolin’s waves, using light hard materials to show soft waves-like patterns. I would like to adapt his design of using hard material to show soft illusions, however, I would choose transparent materials to print out my own pattern as they can interact with light better.
Silhouette Zoetrope by Christine Veras, utilize human eyes’ function to show animation with simple kinetic light devices and strategies. This is the main inspiration of my project, as I am really inspired by how simple it is made and how powerful the outcome can be. Instead of playing with light and shadow, I would like the animated materials to be a part of the show as well, that more changes and different art style will be potential.
Project Description
I would like to make a light zeotrope using stepper motor and 3D printing materials. As shown in the sketch, I will laser cut out a platform to put on the stepper motor box(orange) and on the platform, I will place a light source (purple part) inside a laser-cut column, with holes on the surface to let out the light, and with 3D printed waves on the top and around the light source to create different patterns. When the platform starts rotating, the support material of the 3D printed waves around the edge of the platform will be invisible, and the users can see a moving, shiny sea-surface-like pattern.
Production Schedule
- 04/24 (wed) – Project Proposal Due
- 04/25 (Thu) – Project Approval
- 04/30 (Tue) – Sketch finished
- 05/02 (Thu) – Coding finished
- 05/07 (Tue) – 3D print and laser cut file ready, sample scheduled/ tested
- 05/09 (Thu) – Physical model first sample connected and finished, ready for user test/ second time printing (if anything wrong with the model)
- 05/14 (Tue) – Pre-Final Critique
- 05/16 (Thu) – Project 3 Presentation
- 05/23 (Thu) – Project 3 Blog Post Due
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