3D Scanning
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Scanning the creamer. |
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Lasers. Very futuristic. |
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Sad results. Culprits: 1. Image was blury, too far on macro setting. |
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Paint marker. Dries matte, allegedly washable.
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Cardboard structure to prevent extra light. |
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Yay! |
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Holes in top surface, since the scanner can't see this region. I was not able to fill them within software. Exported stl missing half of this geometry so was unable to work further in rhino. |
3D Printing
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First Idea To print a 3d tree generated with Rabbit in Grasshopper. Rejected because branches would be too thin at this scale. (2"x 2") |
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Second Idea: Ring! |
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Key lesson, in Rhino, join all surfaces first, THEN mesh. If you mesh the faces first then when you try to join them you end up with a very unstable surface with too many naked edges to repair. |
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Wanted the ring face to have a tiger, so I used a grasshopper script to generate one from a picture. Key lessons. Reduce the size of your image be 90%. You need very few pixels to make this work and the image sampler component crashes grasshopper very easily. |
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Face and ring meshes merged very easily. Suspicious. |
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Realized that the face geometry is probably too fine and reduced the number of pixels again. |
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Ring shape came out okay but face is not visible on the face. |
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At this scale a much more simple detail is nessesary. Will repurpose tiger for something larger. |
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