{"id":12846,"date":"2024-10-09T18:41:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T00:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=12846"},"modified":"2024-10-17T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:44:07","slug":"ian-kahn-large-assignment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2024\/10\/09\/ian-kahn-large-assignment-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Kahn – Large Assignment 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The data set I chose is actually from NOAA water level data that I had been working with during my summer internship in ST. Petersburg , Florida so I thought it would be extremely interesting to make a 3d model of this water level data especially since that area of South Florida right now is going through extreme hurricanes and weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St_Petersburg_Annual_Average_Water_Levels<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
St_Petersburg_Average_Water_Levels<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Above is a graph I made parsing this data using an additional python script to specify the focus on the St. Petersburg, Florida NOAA water level monitoring station. As you can see, it is quite evident there is extreme increases in water level within a relatively short period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I found the formation of this model to be extremely interesting especially in this orientation at this scale. I can clearly see the increasing water level trend as demonstrated on my first graph evident in this model only but in this case in a 3 dimensional scale. I can really see the recent increase as demonstrated by the saucer section on the top. It is also important to note that it was extremely difficult for me dealing with the issue of incomplete and missing data not collected by NOAA and this caused problems when compiling my model. I had to incorporate additional checks within my python code to ignore these nan sections to not cause problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St_Petersburg_Annual_Average_Water_Levels<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
St_Petersburg_Average_Water_Levels<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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During the set up of my first print, my print slicer software recommended supports so I decided to go with the supports to stay on the safe side. I selected the tree method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So the tree supports came out nicely as expected in the pre print slice. I honestly thought that this concept of using these supports as part of the artistic expression about the water level of St. Petersburg, Florida was also extremely cool and an interesting take when I thought about it, so I decided to leave the support hands in my final print as part of the composition. To me the supporting hands looked like either something overwhelming the vase like figure (perhaps to be interpreted as the hurricanes affecting \/ swarming \/ and attacking St. Pete) or an expression of the people of the world offering their support to the St. Pete area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For this object, I wanted to follow pretty much the same structure as the previous one, only in this model, I was hoping to be able to print it and be able to take off the supporting hands \/ support tree structure. To accomplish this, I played with various parameters I implemented in both my grasshopper python code and the slicer to increase the radius of the neck of the data which apparently had contained floating regions earlier which needed the tree. After playing with these parameters for a while , I was successfully able to have a working print and remove the tree without affecting the print too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Object 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For this object I wanted to make a significant shape for every average and combine them but this took way too much computing power, however I was able to generate a quick render of the brainstorming process in grasshopper .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this idea, the radius of each sphere is determined by the absolute values of the annual water level data. Since this was too much for my computer to handle, I decided to let the radius of the spheres be determined by the averages of every 10 years. Additionally, I thought it would be cool to print up in the y direction which ended up looking super cool as a render. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then knew obviously this would be impossible to print since there are floating portions but I thought with supports it might look super cool like before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the print with supports, I thought it looked super cool , so I decided to go with it for my final print. I’m really fascinated with how the print slicer does supports and computes them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, disappointingly and unfortunately, this initial print I made for this one did not go well at all. I am confident this was an issue with the particular printer I was using likely due to either overheating or a slight jam. This was very frustrating because according to the slicer everything was to print fine and I had to wait several hours for this print. Currently , I am re trying the print, but for now , thankfully I was able to extract and preserve the lower half of this print which came out with a pretty fascinating shape. However, this is just the lower half, so I’m hoping when I check again tomorrow , the full figure will have been printed successfully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2nd Print:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reflection on Designing with Data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I really found this project to be awesome to see the data I worked hard to clean out of and extract from the raw NOAA Florida coastline water levels, and then focus the data specifically for St. Petersburg , Florida for where my summer internship was located. I think that physicalizing data in this fashion especially really brings the data to life even more so than a normal 2 dimensional graph because it can be rotated, and when 3d printed, felt and seen in a 3 dimensional form as we see everything around us. Unfortunately due to lots of printer issues at home and even issues on the ones on campus, it was a pretty stressful process for me to get my prints to complete properly and cleanly especially in a timely manner, so I am hoping to re try some of these models I created, compiled, and successfully sliced when there is a printer I can use without underlying hardware issues that are beyond my understanding to address. During this process of making these prints, I also became very fascinated in how the support trees work in the various slicer software. I think it is really cool to make prints that intentionally have floating components, add supports, and then see how the slicer decides to create support structures (particularly in the tree style). I think some really cool, unique , and organic looking art can be made using this process. In particular one print that I find especially meaningful to me personally, is my first print where I intentionally included the tree supports, supporting the 3d graph vase. I really think it looks like hands supporting the data of St. Petersburg , Florida which I think shows in a way how St. Petersburg is in need of a lot of help right now due to the hurricanes and its almost like showing how people have their attention on it and are supporting the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grasshopper Code:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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IanKahnLA3_V1<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The data set I chose is actually from NOAA water level data that I had been working with during my summer internship in ST. Petersburg , Florida so I thought it would be extremely interesting to make a 3d model of this water level data especially since that area of South Florida right now is going through extreme hurricanes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studentwork24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846","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=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13319,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions\/13319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}