Initial sketches on paper to the left. We originally wanted to make 3d-printed "springs" but moved to the marshmallow idea seen at the bottom of the page.

This was right after the baking of the grasshopper script (seen below). No tweaks to scale were made after the fact, however the scale had to be done manually in the slicer to get it to match up with the one in the model (because we used inches).

We also have photos of a paper sketch, but I don't have access to them right now so I'll add them later, along with photos of the grasshopper script.

Our idea was to make a "s'mores" like design, using voronoi on mdf as the two "graham crackers", a sheet of metal as chocolate, and 3d-printed surface-paneled cylinders as marshmallows. Honestly, the "marshmallows" are strong enough to stand on, but that's fine. It'll take a lot of print time, but it'll be pretty cool when it turns out.

This took a lot of tweaking, but it eventually worked. While the rectangular array worked, all the spacing was done by hand, when it would've been better to have done it mathematically (one slider for padding, another for the number in each direction, etc.).

We had issues with laser engraving, and even when restarting, it failed at the same place. We don't know exactly why, but one hypothesis was that it was overheating (but honestly, no idea). We moved from the epilog mini in the electronics shop to the larger one in the wood shop, and hopefully it works better.

We had multiple issues with printing. Firstly, we ran out of white filament, so we started printing in a sandstone off-white/gray color. It honestly doesn't matter much, because it's all close and will hopefully look like a marshmallow. To not waste plastic, we reused the wrong-color test print in the middle, because it'll be mostly hidden. There are two failed prints pictured in the photo, both with white filament. They were printing at the same time. Not only does it look like the printer ran out of filament (seen with the one in the back right),  but it also looks like one of the cylinders detached from the bed (pictured in front), and it got all spaghetti-y. Luckily, the one in the back right was only a few layers from finishing, and it's totally usable in the final thing where it won't be seen. Considering one of these is enough to support our weight, hopefully it'll be strong enough not only to hold our weight but to hold a jump or something.

This is before all the things are attached. We may add spacers between the top layer of MDF and the metal, but that is TBD. We need to paint the metal and glue/screw the entire thing together.

We decided not to do the spacer thing because it'd compromise the structural integrity. The photo on the left is after we spray painted the metal and added glue. The giant box on top is heavy to get a stronger glue joint

It turned out really well! Other than the issues with laser engraving and 3d printing, everything went very smoothly. It definitely fulfills the prompt: it holds our weight and was done with paneling via surface morph.

In fact, it can even hold all of our combined weights (if we can manage to all balance on top of it) and a small jump with a single person.