sunday betty street

More tiled vessels being explored. This time I used array to arrange the tiles so I know they are equidistant and perfectly arranged. I have started on the square tiles as an alternative as seen here

I have arranged 500 tiles:

Pre-bend

Bend: angle = 371deg and direction = 90deg

With lid - made with same 500 tiles then bent on the X axis at 5000 degrees

  
Still looking for texture ideas for the treasure box. Came across this which has the right colour and I like the idea of the tiles having the raised little knobs on each of them. This is interesting because I need to keep the pattern simple because of the size of the final object.

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And I am interested in the concept of Babushka dolls, (also called the matrushka doll) playing a part in my design.This grew from the container or waka huia notion especially the idea of precious objects being contained within. The Babushkas nest inside one another with the smallest or youngest at the centre. I hope to represent this concept in my design.

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My family have remarked on how my concept reminds them of a waka huia (treasure box) which was used by Māori to hold precious adornments such as hei tiki (pendants) and huia feathers for dressing the hair.

I really like the idea of using a roof tile motif (which is strong and substantial when put together in an ordered way) to house a precious object.

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Because of this discovery I am interested in working on altering the shape of the vessel. I can't recall anything that exists like these containers within the Koori or Murri cultures in Australia - I have researched it but wasn't surprised that I couldn't find any images. I need to do a little more research around this .

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I am working with the 'protective' vessel concept. I asked sarah for some help and she showed me how to create the rows of tiles in Solidworks so I can bend them into a vessel shape:

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 But I feel more comfortable now working with 3ds Max and worked out how to achieve the same effect in that programme.


Here's what happens if you add more tiles and 'melt' the top:

...and what happens when you make it 544 tiles and melt the top and bottom:

...and add the 'spherify' modifier:

Is it just me or are these images now starting to look like photos of artifacts for sale in Tribal Art Auction Catalogues...

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Here's what came out of today's fishscales that I imported into 3ds Max:

I cloned the tiles several times

Then used the bend modifier up to 410 degrees and made the object in the middle

And a render of the object in the middle:

 This render was made with the microscopic fishscale material applied from my previous post.

 

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Exploring fish scale pattern. And materials.




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 End of tutorial: I have created a tile shape in Solidworks which I will import into 3ds Max to play with.



Fishscale tile

Sketches



3. Pattern for adding texture/interest to tiles

4. Shape of form

monday betty street

Project 3: Grow

Have been looking for precedents to illustrate my ideas about pattern. Although I am keen to move away from the ideas we have been working on I want to retain an element of what we have done so far... I have been thinking about the word 'sew' a lot while working on the first two projects but I have also been thinking about the differences between the word sown and sewn so I started to look at images related to sowing a field...

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This image made me to think about terra cotta colours so I started to think about the 'Tomettes' (floor tiles) that I used to have in my kitchen in France...

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And the terracotta rooftops of the towns around my home...

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Other tiling examples (I'm really drawn to the fish scale variety) that I found include this interior (bathroom) tile...

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and in this vertical garden...

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 and these roof tiles...

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The assignment asks us to 'conceptualise a theme that responds to some mode of “pattern”' so I am thinking about how roof tiles are placed in a pattern that makes them impermeable and waterproof so they protect and shelter. I want to start working on the idea of my theme being about shelter, whether naturally or synthetically occurring.

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Experiment 2: Fabricate

Presentation.

Revised render of my digital model:

Photo of laser cut model:

My words are thread, work and aggressive. For me, there was an ongoing dialogue that I found taking place between the two objects that make up my work. It was about conflict and the fight for one object to master the other. Like thread and fabric - there have been moments where either object could be seen as the dominant element.

In the end it was a needle that dominated the beast....

Design precedents have included:

Development images include:

Note: This blog entry was created solely for the purpose of illustrating my presentation. Therefore the images have been referenced previously on this blog or are my own images.

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The Beast in acrylic

So here comes a complete run down of how I go to this stage:

When I realised the week before last that I would not be able to use the latticework method of construction described here for my 3d object, I went back to the idea of sections and decided the best way would be to section off the two objects that make up the beast separately. There's a way to slice each of them so that you get the optimal amount of detail in each section. So I sliced the black object like this:

Screen grab 3ds Max Black object

And the red one like this:

Screen grab 3ds Max Red Object

I turned these sections into shapes in 3ds Max and then placed them all on the same plane and exported them into Illustrator. This didn't work too well and in the end I just saved each shape (which become the cutting paths) individually into Illustrator. I had been shown a way to explode them in AutoCAD which might help simplify the multiple faces that 3ds Max generates but it all got a bit complicated when I realised I needed to learn to use AutoCAD too...

Here's the AutoCAD file of  the red object:

So I arrived at the file I handed in last Tuesday (here)

We got our acrylic and card files back on Thursday. I brought them home and immediately started to construct the Beast using glue - mainly for the purpose of seeing how it would look when complete as well as to use as a guide for when I sew it together.

I made the red shape first. I have cute two squares on the part where the two long pieces join so that you can see the exact angle they must lie on when being joined together. Here's how it went:

Using fine red thread to start with...

...and then broke it while unpicking the first sewing attempt

Second attempt with card...Good old bull-clips - the king of assembly tools

That worked

Then I added the acrylic and began the wrap.

From there I focused entirely on the acrylic version. I used the numbers and the 3ds Max and Illustrator files to guide me on placing the pieces.

Using my numbers to assemble sections of the beast

Slowly the sections came together

Another angle shows better how the red object will look when they are finished and in place

I have been able to sew together the pieces in a preliminary test so the absence of glue doesn't seem to present any major problems. I am using embroidery thread to wrap the beast which I should have put together by Tuesday night so that I can spend Wednesday photographing the final product.

...slight glitch - two of my shapes have not been cut (all the way through) in the card so I am hoping I can either get them cut tomorrow or (if worst comes to worst) cut them myself. As you can see below, you can see the line they are supposed to be cut on...

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