Isaac Anwar 3d Printing & Parametric Design
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Activity 1: Form Finding
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Making the forms: Overall making the forms was a pretty interesting and cool experience. My groups plan was to design the form around the wooden dowels and rubber bands, we tried to use bubbles but didn't really get what we wanted out of it so we decided to not use it at all. A challenge that we came across when creating out forms is how many different combinations and shapes we can make with only the 2 parameters. We had some creative blockage at the start with trying out best to make designs that were organized, however we found that being a little sloppy and trying things that we didn't think were going to work is how we ended up creating out best work. A big part of creating these forms was the balance that had to be had in some of them to keep the wooden dowels in place. Overall I feel we were pretty successful in creating forms that were unique but also pretty aesthetic.
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Overview: Some challenges that I faced when creating this form is the difficulty of working with the rubber bands and adapting it to Rhino. I had felt the need to make the rubber bands thicker than I would want as I felt that if the rubber bands were too thin, the design would fail. The main way I build these rubber bands is using points and making them into lines, then I turned those lines into pipes which created the rubber bands. Overall making the platform as well as the wooden dowels was a pretty basic task with using the cylinder and rectangle commands.
3D Printing:
Basic Grasshopper Tutorial: The repetition and the repeatability introduced by the number slider can be used as a great parameter.
Cylinder Grasshopper Tutorial: Pretty basic, can be repurposed to resemble some objects and shapes.
Veroni on 2D Grasshopper Tutorial: I really like the design possibility wit this, however I think that I need to figure out how to use this design in a different shape.
Tessellation Basics Grasshopper Tutorial: Cool design and has some potential that can possibly work with the Veroni Tutorial to make this design have more detail.
Torus Grasshopper Tutorial: I really like this and think it can also work well with the Veroni to make a design that can be 3D printed into an actual object.
Illusion Pattern Grasshopper Tutorial: Very cool design potential, I think that if I can make this into a pipe that would be absolutely sick and would be cool for maybe a necklace or something like that.
Manipulating Pattern Tutorial. Similar to the Illusion patter, it would work very well with the pipe command in rhino, I also think it is possible that I can make some more abstract and intricate design by branching the design on the points that I can manipulate using the number slider.
Printing With Grasshopper
Update 1: I want to do something with the veroni and bounding it to a bounding box and making a shape out of it. I might want to extrude it as well but that is subject to change.
Figured out how to bound the veroni square to a octagon, however, I am a little unsure on what else I can do from here.
Decided to pipe the whole thing, but that needed up in the pipes not connecting with each other, so I had to tweak some of the numbers in order for the shape to look organized.
Uploaded the Shape into the Prusa so I just have to see if the print is structurally sound.
Final Print: After one failed print, this one finally finished without getting stuck.
Curves and Surfaces:
I had a-lot of trouble with this tutorial, im not sure what I did but once I started messign around with the grasshopper something failed and I was not able to fix it.
Graph Mapper:
This one is pretty cool, I like the creative freedom I have here and how I am able to make a shape in rhino and edit it through grasshopper.
Voronoi Cell:
This is one REALLY cool, however it is also super complicated and I do not understand what is happening for the most part, but don't get me wrong, its REALLY cool.
Paneling with Surface Morph:
This one is also super cool. I really like the parametric potential that these components have and how I can greatly change the shape of an object by simply editing a graph.
Sphere Voronoi:
I like how this incorporated the Voronoi into a more interesting shape that isn't just extruding.
Elk Basics:
I really do not understand what I am doing wrong here. The only thing that could possibly go wrong is my file not working or the path not connecting.
Torus Light Manipulation Project
Day 1:
Some ideas that we can do in the future, probably going for something along the lines of the third sketch.
Day 2:
We created a design that made the torus into a wavy hollow shape that we can most likely shine a flashlight through to manipulate light.
Day 3:
We decided to print a test version of our design, however it failed as it was too structurally unsound and flimsy. It broke very quickly.
Day 4:
We decided to do a full-scale print and take an Aesthetic photoshoot of the print manipulating light in a dark room. We made some cool designs on the wall, however, I feel like we are going to take a step forward and try to do something cooler.
Day 5 and 6:
We made a big one
We made a big one
Used previously for the Aesthetic Photoshoot
We made a spinning top
We made a spinning top
We printed a top attachment that can be used to make the previous design spin.
We put the spinning top in the big one
We put the spinning top in the big one
It's so cool :D
Day: 7, 8, and 9
Went for a big print that was flexible and prism inside, which would hypothetically allow for light to shine through in a new and interesting way. BUT, we made a very nice piece of contemporary art in the process.
So this ended up being a pretty epic fail as it took a very long time for it to print, and on top of that we had difficulty with the 3d printer getting jammed and it randomly stop printing every 10 minutes. I feel like in order for this to succeed the printer would need to get a smoother printing of the object, also we need to make the in-fill less as well as make the place where the prism is held bigger. But we made a good mistake as we made a jellyfish looking piece of art.
Shapeways Project:
Shapeways Project:
Day 1:
Day 1:
Here are some of the ideas I have for what my project can be.
Day 2:
Day 2:
I want to make my project on a plant pot.
Day 3,4, and 5
Day 3,4, and 5
Here are some of the plant pot ideas that I created with graph mapper, I like the first one but I don't think it will be able to print well.
Day 6:
Day 6:
This is my final Rhino 3D file, it is a plant pot that resembles a tulip.
Day 7:
Day 7:
My print was having issues as it would start to print then move around and get messed up. I might have to add a removable base so I can stop it from moving.
Day 8:
Day 8:
I printed my test print and found that the bottom of my design might pose a problem, however I do like the way it turned out.
Day 9:
Day 9:
The bottom of the pot is not thick enough to print so I will have to somehow fill the hole.
Day 10,11
Day 10,11
I decided to cap the bottom of the pot, but there is still a wall thickness issue at the bottom so I will see if shapeways is still able to print.
Mood Board:
My goal was to make a nature (ideally tulip) style plant pot
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