Fabric is an incredibly dynamic material, and because of that we chose to use it as our main tool when finding forms. Rubber bands are great, but they lack the capacity of fabric to shift and mold into hundreds of different forms. We used the tools we had available, namely drills, wood, and little sticks, to create a series of scenarios that the fabric could adapt to. These are the three we found the most interesting. Our landscape of wooden sticks allowed the fabric to fall freely, and in some cases we used rubber bands to accentuate certain elements of the form.
I played around a lot with rhino, trying to remember the old commands and stuff. I drew lines interpreted from the picture, then copied and pasted them and resized them to form sweep guide shapes. These are the sweep guide shapes.
I used sweep 2 to form three different surfaces, which I then used offsetsrf to form solids (this was quite challenging and Samu had to help me split the red shape into 3 pieces to give it thickness--it was too complicated for rhino to render all at once. I then grouped these and formed them into a (purple) mesh, which I simplified so that Cura could handle it.
Cura
Printing
Finished
Soaking PVA
This was the one I made using the Ultimaker (the "overhang" one). I used Black Tough PLA for building and Natural PVA for supports on the and I used. 80% infill because it is very thin. The biggest challenge was figuring out how to use the machines and becoming reacquainted with rhino, and my biggest accomplishment was completing a printed model that looks (I think) quite a bit like the original form. Below are the ones made by my group mates.
Colin's print was on the Prusa with generic grey PLA. He used about 80% infill to make it as dense as possible and also fully covered it down to make it very dense (unlike mine, which had overhangs). His biggest challenge was figuring out rhino, and his biggest accomplishment was figuring out the drape command in rhino
Ausar's print was on the Pursa as well, with the generic grey PLA. He used 15% infil to make it very light, and also cut out the middle so that his print was basically a light (bent/curved) sheet of plastic. His biggest challenge was removing the supports, and a success is that it printed smoothly.