5/8/2014 0 Comments First (and last) projectFor the last post for my digital sculpture class, here are some images of the very first thing I printed at the beginning of the semester...
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5/6/2014 0 Comments Khufu's (Plastic) Solar BargeAfter much difficulty, I finally finished printing the solar barge I have been working on for at least half the semester. First, though, after my initial printing method proved inadequate (the printing bed is too small..) I had to modify my strategy. Here, you can see that I have sliced the model in half parallel to its width instead of along its length, as I had done previously, and provided holes in both halves for pegs that will hold them together. Beyond that, though, I needed to print the front and rear finials separately, because the printer does not handle small vertical elements well (and that is a severe understatement, though settings can be adjusted to some extent). With some superglue (and far more sanding than I would like to think about) it finally came together fairly well.
5/6/2014 0 Comments 3-D Capture projectThe last major assignment for my digital sculpture class involved using a program that converts photographs of objects into a three-dimensional computer model which can then be manipulated and ultimately printed. For instance, this is a model of the telephone in the digital photo lab, generated from about 20-30 photographs taken with my DSLR camera. The object that I eventually decided to capture was the bottom portion of one of the trees on campus. After taking images with my cellphone from all sides and at several different angles, I uploaded the photos to Autodesk 123D Catch (which is free, by the way...) where they were converted into a model. I then downloaded the file onto my computer and started modifying and cleaning up the model using Meshmixer. This included the addition of a base as well as a model of a centrally-planned building I made in Blender. In the end, this is how it looks printed in PLA plastic.
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