{"id":12371,"date":"2024-09-27T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2024-09-30T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:32:12","slug":"ian-kahn-large-assignment-2-parametric-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2024\/09\/27\/ian-kahn-large-assignment-2-parametric-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Kahn: Large Assignment 2 Parametric Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Design Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First of all, I’m really grateful to the Accessibility Recourse Center and Dr. Buechley helping me with an extension during this assignment as I was dealing with extreme health issues these past few weeks. I had never really had to utilize these recourses UNM has to offer, due to my good health before this but I am so grateful that UNM has this program set up to help students struggling with health issues, and I also have a newfound respect for anyone out there struggling with health issues as I now know how difficult it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, back to my design process. For my design process I decided to stay on the safer and slightly less experimental side due to a lot of issues that my printer at home was having with more complex designs, so for my 3 prints, I decided to ensure that the in class python code implementation was up and running, and then I began to modify and add the additional slider parameters to modify the cylindrical shape I created in various ways. For my first print, I wanted an organic yet visibly well planned and modern object, so I decided to adjust the input data from the sliders first contort the object into a cone like figure. I then adjusted the other sliders to add organic looking textures and grooves to the sides in order to make it more organic looking like a small mountain you might see in nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To be honest, my printing process on this was extremely difficult due to the amount of roadblocks I had both with my printer at home and then the printers I was attempting to utilize at the Mechanical Engineering building . I ended up discovering several small bugs in my python implementation which was quite time consuming to figure out where these glitches were coming from , the hardware I was using, computer, printer issues, or my implementation in rhino \/ grasshopper, but after a long process of trial and error and troubleshooting, I was successfully able to create a clean and successful printing routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfortunately, here is the results from that 3 in 1 attempt I originally had on the lulzbot printer. Looking back on it, I think that this issue is stemmed from my experimental mathematical base shape not having a level base, which then caused all 3 prints to unfortunately fail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unfortunately, here is another fail I had on one of my print variations, I believe the printer called this a spaghetti error, i’m not sure why this happened or how I could have prevented it. If anyone has feedback on this, I would appreciate it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here is the beginning of my lulzbot print attempt in motion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


After failing on both my home printer and losing access to this lulzbot printer , I decided to bring my efforts to the mechanical engineering lab printers and here thankfully I was able to make a lot better progress and flattened out the bugs in my grasshopper python implementation as well. The printers in this lab actually did not use cura but instead used a similar program called Bambu studio, but everything on this software was thankfully relatively easy to learn and similar to cura. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is one of the completed print screens on the printer in the 3d print lab in the mech e building I was using. I personally enjoyed using these printers a lot more than the ender 3 I had at home and they were significantly faster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reflection on the Parametric Design Process
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Although on this project, I had many roadblocks and frustrating printer issues (including annoying filament jamming issues on my ender 3 at home, I thought that the process of parametric design is so extremely cool and exactly what I feel passionate about creatively when it comes to computer science in comparison to other engineering fields (in my opinion). I think it is so awesome how utilizing math, programming , and creativity that these truly unique structures can be fabricated. It was really cool to see how these math equations and functions can be used in a real life hands on scenario and fused with my own artistic creativity. I really think that this combination of creativity and technical expertise is so extremely cool. I find it interesting how this type of design differs from typical arts design in a sense where everything is significantly more precise since it is made from a computer \/ machine as oppose to a human use handheld or perhaps tool based skills. As I’ve learned from my efforts in this project, I think that parametric design enables us to come up with vessels and structures that are just not possible (especially in the sense of precision \/ weight balancing etc ) from using other human based artistic \/ fabricating tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Agency and Intent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While making these objects one thing I definitely had in mind is the fusion of organic, industrial, and technological features in the compositions of my art pieces. I especially feel proud of my triangular organic looking mountain shape which I personally think looks like a interesting blend of an organic object you might see in nature with a more linear \/ symmetrical \/ industrial fabricated look. I feel especially inspired by the cyberpunk aesthetic portrayed in a lot of movies \/ games , two of my favorites being the watch dogs series games and cyberpunk 2077, throughout this course , I hope to be able to continue this aesthetic of blending organic and technological looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finished Prints<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Above is my grasshopper code I used, it is essentially a slightly modified version to include slight mathematical \/ functional differences of the one we replicated in class lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Design Process First of all, I’m really grateful to the Accessibility Recourse Center and Dr. Buechley helping me with an extension during this assignment as I was dealing with extreme health issues these past few weeks. I had never really had to utilize these recourses UNM has to offer, due to my good health before this but I am so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12371","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\/12371","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12371"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12446,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions\/12446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}