{"id":6223,"date":"2023-09-26T06:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2023-09-26T06:12:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:12:46","slug":"michel-robert-parametric-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2023\/09\/26\/michel-robert-parametric-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Robert-Parametric Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I started my vessels with the base pieces that we built in class. I added a few extra lists, first was one to change the number of facets for each individual polygon. Then I added one each for pitch and roll angles as well. The last one I added was a replacement for the “r” variable in my star and cog shapes it was the value I used to scale the radius that was calculated from a formula. For my first two vessels I had 4 individual polygons and then I added 4 more for a total of eight for my last vessel. I used the same setup we did in class for the thickness and for the bottom cap of my vessels. My grasshopper windows got a bit cluttered when I added 8 shapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first vessel was pretty simple I was playing around with the pitch and the changing of the number of facets and got this kind of goose neck looking vessel that I liked, Its not the most interesting piece but it being my first time doing an extended 3d print I wanted to get something out to test and see how it went. I had to re-level my bed, I must have moved it around while carrying it around but other than that the printing process was smooth with no issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My second vessel I wanted to try a more complex shape and went or a star I did this by creating a new function in my python script that had a facet % 2 check and changed the radius depending on the remainder. I liked how the waves on the side of the vessel overlapped a bit when I had changing number of facets between the stars. I didn’t do anything with the pitch or roll on this one because it made a bit of a mess of the waves on the side and produced holes in the side of the vessel. Again the printing process was smooth on this one no issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my third vessel I again wanted to try a more complex shape. I made another function in my python script that had a similar idea to the star vessel but instead this time I check with facets % 4 this gave me 2 extra points to square of the edges of the star instead of being very pointed. Being mod 4 meant that my facets had to be much higher to get to this cog like shape. I really wanted to make this into a bit of a spiral upwards but I was having issues with the roll in my program and didn’t realize that I had just forgotten to convert it to radians until it was too late. This print process was also smooth with no issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Designing these objects with programming and 3d printing felt a bit restrictive at first until I got a bit more comfortable playing around with what is available. It feels very different from a traditional design process, for my first vessel especially I was just playing around with the different pieces of the program until I found a shape I found visibly appealing. When I’ve worked with clay or other more traditional art mediums in the past I think I had a better idea of what form I was trying to make before I started working. I think the advantage of this process are that you can find interesting forms that you might not have initially thought of. A disadvantage is that when you have something specific in mind it isn’t as easy to just make the form, at least for me, I had to do more trial and error before getting close to what I had in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first form I didn’t have an idea in mind I just experimented with the parameters until I found something I liked. The second and third I had an initial idea of what I wanted to do with the star shape and the cog shape but I was still playing with parameters in the end to find something I liked for the general structure of the the vessels. I don’t totally feel like I designed the forms, the process feels a little too formulaic. That’s not to say there isn’t some formulaic structure to other forms of art, but it feels a bit different having grasshopper and rhino fill in some of the steps of the process. I do feel like my sense of authorship is diminished because of the formulaic nature. I am certainly not the first person to use the equations that I used to make the shapes. But, the vessels wouldn’t exist if I hadn’t written the code and fiddled with all the parameters.
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I started my vessels with the base pieces that we built in class. I added a few extra lists, first was one to change the number of facets for each individual polygon. Then I added one each for pitch and roll angles as well. The last one I added was a replacement for the “r” variable in my star and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vessels23","category-studentwork23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6300,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions\/6300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}