Week 1 - Cutting
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I started off with the idea of showcasing the power of parametric design through Ionic greek poles.
So, for the first time in my life I opened up a 3D modeling software.
I thought that a quick and dirty tool can be one of the online applications, so I went on onshape.
The idea was to have one parameter to rule them all meaning that the number of faces would determine how fine the pole shapes.
This all looked very well on the screen, but unfortunately reality is more complicated. When I cut the cardboard, the little joints
were extremely hard to hold together at the top. I learned that with cutting, the key is to deeply visualize the way joints hold
my components together. After hours trying to glue together my wacky pieces, I gave up and began a new idea - parametric biplane.
Now my joints look solid and I felt that must hold my piece together. Let's slice that cardboard!
Woohoo! It worked! now moving to Vinyl cut. I thought it could be interesting to test how fine the vinyl gets with thin slices.
A natural choice for me was to design my spirit animal - a Penguin! but to make it a little harder, I redesigned the penguin in triangles.
The weeding work was quite satisfying, I'm not gonna lie. after ~1 hour with the tweezers, I came up with this:
Now I know how to cut stuff! (and to model simple shapes in 3D)
