Caitlin's OBDF 110 Process Blog

  RESEARCH - Zim & Zou "Genetic Manipulation" display from Zim and Zou's "Edible Monsters" project for la Rinascente, EXPO Milan 2015. While researching examples of paper-craft objects I was most impressed by the immersive scenes, bold colours, and fine details of Zim & Zou's creations. Zim & Zou are a duo of designers out of France that focus on creating physical creations as opposed to computer designs.  The scale of their paper-craft work ranges from small dioramas or objects all the way up to large display features the size of rooms for stores such as Hermes. Though their work is often part of high-end retail displays, they still have a purpose behind them, or at least an intention to ignite a conversation. The example above is titled "Genetic Manipulation" from their series of displays for their "Edible Monsters" project. It depicts a laboratory experiment in whimsical colours and shapes, the results of which are drippin

All 13 Objects This week's task was to generate some hollow-form objects that could potentially be 3D printed.  Using lines, shapes, loft, and sweep-the-rail functions I created 13 capped hollow-form vessel objects. As I progressed, I started adding more complicated shapes and angles to the designs including text and even wingding symbols converted to shape. Towards the end I was distorting shapes and rotating them to create twisted, angled top faces. Unfortunately, not all of these will be suited to 3D printing due to some of the higher angles that wouldn't be able to print without support. Below are some closer renders of the hollow-form vessels. All were rendered with emerald gem as the material.

  Extruded and rendered designs in purple frosted glass This week's task was to design some rings in 2D then extrude them to create 3D versions. To see the results of my design, I sent in one ring design to be used with the laser cutter. I ended up making 11 ring designs. Only 9 more plus some fire from Mordor and I would have enough to help bring Sauron to power.  2D line designs I tried to make a variety of shapes and designs to explore the 2D design tools and become familiar with them. Most of the designs were created to fit my ring size, the only one that isn't is the one in the top right which was done to a larger ring size. I used a lot of splitting, trimming, and reflecting to combine the various lines and shapes into designs that could be extruded.  Non-rendered, mesh, and shaded view of ring designs. I applied the extrude function to all of the 2D ring designs. All were extruded to 3mm which is the approximate thickness of the acrylic/plastic that they could be cut fro