Finished Product

Assigned: Voronoi Tutorial, Light Manipulation, and the CNC Router

Used the Voronoi Structure and the bounding box from the tutorial
We created an art piece that glows and creates cool shadows. We felt we were very successful.

CNC Router in Use

This is an image of the CNC router making the base we designed. In order to make the base, we needed to do a flip cut, as well as 2 run's on each side: one for a rough cut, and one finishing cut to make the base smooth. The image shows the router in the middle of doing the 2nd cut, before the flip cut.

Light Design

This is an image of the final light soldered design. When we finish making the base though, we will take the light off and re-solder so that the wires are hidden under the base and only the light peaks out.

Final Prototype

We took our orignial prototy that we had at first wanted to carve out of wood via the cnc router, and once we gave up on that we decided to cnc the circular base and just print the far too complicated shape out in white PLA instead. With the shapes the way they are it still manipulates light well, as you can see and there hopefully also be light coming from inside it as well.

PLA Glow Test

This was a test to see which color of pla held and manipulated light best. We ended up going with the white PLA because with our softer orange light it would need to be visible against the plastic sculpture.

3D Prototype

In theory this was to be very temporary; the final result would have needed to be milled out of wood so we figured the walls must be much thicker. Instead we scrapped the complicated mess of cutting a shape like this out with a router.

First Prototype in Print

We first printed a smaller design of our final voroni design. In the first attempt we had, the print spaghettied. After making a prototype, we originally wanted to make our designs our of wood using the router, but with the limitations of the router we have at school, we decided to instead 3D print our design, and then make the base which our design goes on top of using the router.

Earlier Rhino Designs

Talen and I used a combined methodology of Grasshopper and Rhino to create curves in a voronoi pattern bound to the surface of our partial-elipse. Once we had the curves baked we then extruded the surface and wirecut the curves straight down through the extruded surface.

First Sketch Ideas

We needed to make a design which manipulated light. We were inspired by the designs of wasp hives, which had very similar voroni designs as what we were trying to accomplish. We would then have a light in between the Voroni designs we made which would allow the holes in our design manipulate the light.

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