Week 06

The nylon experiment works pretty well. With this one i wrapped polystyrene balls with nylon stocking. This one is pretty close to the original sketch, however unfortunately the motor is not strong enough the pull the fabric that much. Also the backside of the "blob" looks pretty bad, you can see the "pin" on the left side sticking out.

What i like about this one is the ambiguity of it. The black fabric masks a lot of the detail which makes it look like just a black blob. Also at times the silhouette reminds me of heads, like it's morphing between different "faces" / pareidolia. However i wish it was more "floaty", not as rigid as it currently is. This could be solved with more motors and more continuous movement.

The submerged condom experiment did not work that well. I tried three times, with different techniques, but i can't make it work properly.

The first time i tried a double wrapped condom with theaded polystyrene balls inside. The problem with this one was that i didn't secure it on the bottom and the condom was floating on the surface of the tank. The second attempt i tried the same just with threads keeping it in place on the bottom as well. However the effects doesn't work that well. The distortion doesn't work that well also the ink keeps leaking into the tank / while hanging it up. As a result the project has a limited timespan.

The silicon experiment worked ok. It's super flexible however the motor is still not strong enough to pull it properly. Also the silicon ended up being way too thick. The test run i did just on the side as i had way too much leftover turned out better than the one in the mold. Material looks very nice however.

Week 05

Laser cut the box for the floating object experiment.

Just condom filled with water and magnet inside burst immediately. Same with balloon and magnet. Wrapping multiple balloons inside each other solved this problem but then i couldn't fill it with water anymore as it was "too strong".

When i put the magnet inside a polystyrene ball and double wrapped the condom it worked ok. It's pretty durable but no interesting shapes occur. Idk if maybe this is because i didn't hang it tight enough. As you can see in the video it gives in pretty fast and i can move it around. Also the magnet needs to be pretty close for it to work. Ideally, i wouldn't have to move the magnet inside the box at all as it "breaks" the feeling a bit.

Week 04

Tesselation surface folded.

Week 03

Exploring tessellation / re-meshing techniques from last week. The way these where done is by subdividing the default cube in top mod and applying the different re-meshing techniques in different order. They're then imported into Cinema 4D where they're extruded and and scaled to make a surface that could be folded with paper.

I think as experiments some of these look nice, however I think that in terms of making a foldable / morphable surface a regular triangulated surface is the most effective as it can be folded from many angles. Going forward, depending on when we can use the laser cutter, I should try to cut and fold some of these to see how they work in practice. Could also be interesting to explore the negative space of these (extrude along the lines instead of the middle of the polygon).

This is a shape path made in photoshop, then animated along a curve. Needs a proper stand however.

Regular triangulated mesh, distorted.

Double stellated mesh

Honeycomb, then cubic pentagonalization

Dual loop style remeshing

Dual loop style remeshing, twisted.

Dual pentagonalization

Week 02

 

I was thinking of either doing a kinetic object or projection mapping on models.

With a kinetic object I was thinking of foldable structures, surfaces that can expand and retract. Similar to maybe origami structures / knitting techniques. E.g. use it to make a shape that can be "morphed" by motors pulling strings. However I'm afraid this may end up being too much engineering for me.

Projection mapping on models i was thinking of using either fungi (gills, voronoi patterns) or anatomy for visual direction.

Week 01