{"id":12054,"date":"2024-09-24T21:53:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2024-09-24T21:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:53:28","slug":"large-assignment-2-liz-digioia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2024\/09\/24\/large-assignment-2-liz-digioia\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Assignment 2 – Liz DiGioia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Design Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To create my vessels, I selected or created point-defining functions which I thought looked cool and used InterpCurves to connect the points. For my first vase I modified the triangle gear function from class and created a flower shape. I like the sort of flowing shape caused by sequential rotations of the curves in one direction. The second vase was created using the polygon function from class. It was fun playing with the number of sides per polygon and the rotations to move the ridge created by InterpCurve. The third vase I again modified the triangle gear function and created a sunburst shape. I originally planned to make this vessel a more complicated shape, but I just love how it resembles a cactus and chose to leave it as it was.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From left to right: Flower Gear Vessel, Polygon Vessel, Sunburst Gear Vessel (aka the Cactus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Printing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I only ran into a few minor issues during printing. For all of my vessels, there was some odd “bubbling” of the infill in the bases (see the image on the top row far right). I’m not sure why that happened. My best theory is that it may have to do with my choice of infill pattern (lightning). Whatever caused this, it doesn’t seem to have affected the stability of the vessels. Another issue is the top edge of the Flower Gear Vessel. Due to the design, I set the wall thickness to 2. I neglected, however, to set the wall thicknesses in Cura to sum to 2. As a result they aren’t perfectly bonded at the top. There were also some small globs on this vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reflections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Creating forms with code and 3D printing allows me to form smooth, mathematical shapes that I likely would not consider and definitely could not fabricate on my own. When using more traditional crafting processes, I feel it is more necessary to have at least an idea of the direction you want the piece to go in. With parametric design it was more of a surprise what forms could be generated with the same Grasshopper “machine”. One advantage is that once the code is constructed it doesn’t take long to generate diverse forms. A disadvantage is that it can be tricky to execute a specific idea. For example, I wanted to rotate some curves the way you can using the gumball – where the curve stays where it is and just tilts in the desired direction. However, RotationZYX moves the curve around the desired axis rather than tilting it in place, and I didn’t find a better function in the Grasshopper documentation. It’s entirely possible that I just missed the function I needed, but I wound up giving up on the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I designed my forms by picking ones I liked. I played around with the triangleGear function given in class to create my flowerGear and sunburstGear functions. Technically this was a failure to code an idea I was going for, but I’m much happier with the resulting functions than the original idea. Aside from this attempt, I chose to mess around with the parameters and see what looked nice to me. My sense of authorship is different than it would be with traditional methods. It felt like I was discovering the shapes, rather than coming up with them myself from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Design Process To create my vessels, I selected or created point-defining functions which I thought looked cool and used InterpCurves to connect the points. For my first vase I modified the triangle gear function from class and created a flower shape. I like the sort of flowing shape caused by sequential rotations of the curves in one direction. The second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-large-assignment-2-vessels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12222,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions\/12222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}