In my last post, I explored ideas for our hollow-form object project. Our goal is to design an object that meets certain design limitations, to be printed on a FDM 3D printer. This object must be printed with a single perimeter, with no supports or infill. Working within these limitations, our design could be as weird and abstract as we wanted it to be!
After getting randomly matched with a partner, our next step in the project was to choose our favorite ideas and find ways to combine them to create a new object. The new object was supposed to contain elements of each person's original idea, kind of like the two ideas had a baby. We started by discussing our ideas and picking our favorite 3 from each person. We ruled out any that we felt wouldn't be possible to print, and considered each object's potential for being blended with another object. We decided that these 6 concepts had the greatest potential to make final objects that met the project requirements:
We decided we liked this last one best, and got onto the process of refining it. It went through many iterations before we got to the final appearance, but we forgot to grab screenshots. We mostly played with the number and thickness of hexagonal pieces until we got our final design.
This incorporates the six hexagons from my partner's original design, in a circular array around a central point. From my design, these hexagons were then twisted and crossed down towards a central point. Elements from both designs can clearly be seen in this final design.
After getting randomly matched with a partner, our next step in the project was to choose our favorite ideas and find ways to combine them to create a new object. The new object was supposed to contain elements of each person's original idea, kind of like the two ideas had a baby. We started by discussing our ideas and picking our favorite 3 from each person. We ruled out any that we felt wouldn't be possible to print, and considered each object's potential for being blended with another object. We decided that these 6 concepts had the greatest potential to make final objects that met the project requirements:
Once we decided on the six original ideas to try and combine, we got right to sketching out some ideas (poorly). Our sketches were a bit rough around the edges, so we decided to do some quick 'n' dirty models as well to get a better idea of what our concepts would REALLY look like.
This one definitely didn't look like what we imagined it would. We took her design of a lofted shape and twisted it up like one of my designs.
I liked this one - it looks like a pineapple! It's a combination of the spiral vase and my criss-cross design.
We once again took my spirals and applied them to one of her designs, resulting in a cool twisted honeycomb vase.
Similar to the first concept, we decided to try this idea again but with a pointy top more similar to my design. It kind of reminds us of a seashell!
This one combines my criss-cross design with her honeycomb design.
We decided we liked this last one best, and got onto the process of refining it. It went through many iterations before we got to the final appearance, but we forgot to grab screenshots. We mostly played with the number and thickness of hexagonal pieces until we got our final design.
This incorporates the six hexagons from my partner's original design, in a circular array around a central point. From my design, these hexagons were then twisted and crossed down towards a central point. Elements from both designs can clearly be seen in this final design.
We have decided to name it "Steve"