Part 1: 2D Tiles
A description of coding and design process:
For my 2D Escher-esque tile. I was aiming for a SpongeBob-inspired blob shape logo in blue color. I didn’t have much issues or problems with this part, I mainly followed the code from the lectures and experimented/added slight variations and transformations in Grasshopper.
Images of base tile and tiling and colored tile of triangular tile:
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Part 2: 3D Tiles
A description of coding and design process and description of printing process:
In my design process, I aimed to create a tile that represents a “bat” logo. The shape includes some geometrical change in z-axis and also it has a decorative element in the center of each tile as the only open detail to represent a bat logo. The process was smooth, I had some issues designing bat logo tile and spent quite long time, and also had issue with printing it. I’m not sure what was the issue with printing but when I first started printing didn’t work but after few hours, it worked.
Images of base tile and tiling:
Images of 3D print:
Part 3: Surface Morph
A description of process:
I mainly followed the steps from the lectures and didn’t have much issues except from my personal typos which took a long time to debug.
Images of tile, surface and surface decorated with tiling:
Code zip folder:
Hi Bat,
It never occurred to me to make the 2D tiling by directly making the initial lines, like you did for your “chevron” like tiles. Now that I see it it seems so obvious, but I didn’t see that before and ended making my own script to make the tiling, instead of altering what we did in class. Regarding typos, I hear you. Thankfully we have access to the slides, otherwise it would take too long to debug the stuff we make during lectures. Nice work with your tiling, I especially like the way that bowl looks with the surface morph.
Hi, German!
Thank you for your comments! And I agree, without the slides it would’ve taken me a long time to figure out. If I had to learn this topics from the scratch without Professors guidance, it would’ve been very hard. Thanks again!
Hi, I really like the tiling design you chose to go with. The batman shape turned out really well and I like how you made the hole in the center. Your surface morph bowl turned out really cool as well. What kind of failures were you getting when printing?
Hi, Samuel! Thank you for the comments! And for failures, it just wasn’t printing properly. The filament was just spewing but not sticking in a sense. Not sure why it worked afterward though.