Gabrielle's Assignment 4
Part I: Meshy hands
For this assignment, I fused two meshes of hands to produce a sculpture of facing hands.
STL of hand 1
Part II: Week 1 - Getting started on a lamp
Inspiration: crystal lamps! Pretty straightforward 3D printed lattice box allowing crystal formations.
Additive manufacturing meets organic structures.
I started by measuring my lamp innerds and made a few sketches of what I wanted the lamp to look like.
I thought an organic pattern would be nice for the lattice.
I cleaned it in Illustrator and fixed all the intersecting curves that would have messed up the extrusion in Rhino.
Then I played around in Rhino: extruded my shape, used a polar array to make a box, added a base and made a whole to
pass my lamp innerds through using a cylinder and BooleanDifference.
The lamp prototype then looked something like this as an STL...
...and like this in Cura, which has some pretty dramatic undercuts...
...and looked absolutely crazy with (the necessary) supports, plus was an almost 8-hour long project :/
My pattern is probably better suited for a laser cutter. I need to find a different pattern or find a
way to print the walls separately and assemble them without glue afterwards.
Part II: Week 2 - Making a lamp
I wanted to try out the general concept so I made a mini version of the lamp using a Thingiverse design that I tweaked.
I immersed the print in an Epsom salt solution and let it evaporate for 1-2 days. The crystals came out pretty nice, so
success! Now let's try with a bigger lamp.
I designed the base and the walls in Rhino. I created the walls's organic pattern using the Voronoi commmand in Grasshopper.
Rhino fileGrasshopper definition of the Voronoi walls
Printed the base: it fits the innerds!
I then printed the walls, hot glued them to the base and TADA! A party lamp skeleton! Now, time for crystal making...
This is the part that FAILED. I didn't have enough Epsom salts too create a bigger batch of solution so I could only
immerse one side. It definitely made crystals.
Despite this issue, I learned a ton and still like the result...
