Surface Morph Designed Vase with Animation

 

With This work I am taking a simple 2-D design and morphing it onto the surface of a 3-D object in Rhino and Grasshopper. I decided I would do a Vase for this. I have a particular interest in hollow form vessels as they provide us so much sustenance within our lives. I love the many conceptual representations and the capacities for that which defines a vessel and in turn defines the user of a vessel. As a wise man once told me "Some see the cup as half full, some half empty.... me? I'm just grateful to have a cup to put something in!" I believe in that philosophy. Like the containments within a vessel, we collect, we consume or discard. It diminishes and we always have the opportunity to carry more of something, many things, that we did not before. We fill it and it in turn fills us... with sustenance. My design is based from a 2-D design of hexagons over placed on each other in a rectangular grid in rhino. then I used the pipe action and multi piped the curves after having trimmed away the pieces I needed to. After the pipe was done I went in and trimmed them again. Then used the surface morph definition from grasshopper to apply it to a minimalistic vase I designed in grasshopper here are the photos so far before printing this object.

Stacked slices for Laser Cutting

 In this project I was inspired by the idea of board games. Something that has become increasingly more popular in my household with my kids. I began by creating 3 closed cylinder and placing them above one another with an equal amount of distance in between them. I then drew circles starting larger at the base than the top would be and used the loft command. I was looking for something that resembled an hour glass figure but with a twist to it. An object that is used when we play games like jumanji or chess in my case. Although the kids use it more in jumanji for time challenges. I thought that as much as this would be a simple object it would establish an understanding for what we were doing with this assignment and in the same breath it would look unique as a laser cut and joined model when I was done. I will be combining the use of my 3d printer for the base supports as well which should look cool in the end in having multiple materials within it.

3-D Animation in Grasshopper

This the grasshopper programming I created to do this simple flow and rotate. I had tried to avoid doing these uploads from my Mac but will have to suffer through it for the time being. Although kind of rocky I have the deeper understanding of what I did to achieve this now. 

I did run into difficulties with the flow and rotate. I found recreating the parameters to be easy but had overlooked my list item object in grasshopper, after switching the list items start and end from the deconstruct domain to the faces I had wanted for this to flow and rotate through it did work successfully the way I intended it to. Although seeing how different faces being selected affected the model and how it was stacked was cool in its own way and I think these simple commands are very useful in an artistic and even industrial or utilitarian view point.