Milestone Project - Visual Documentation

 Greetings. 

Here's my Lample!

It has been a very long time since I have rendered... not sure why it looks so blurry. 

Long road to get to this. I needed to re-create my definition from scratch from last week as I had just so much junk in my definition. I had a hard time with dispatch even though we went through it during my 1:1 time. As soon as I started to mess with it, it stopped working and it took a while to figure it out again. I did figure out a work around, however Bryan's way was way cleaner. I also lost all my geometry on this one so, I had to rebuild... Le sigh. It did go faster the third time around, but set me back nonetheless. 

Countless hours in front of my computer, and watching Youtube videos, I wish I had something more impressive to show. My biggest challenge was getting the bake to work, as I would get three different poly surfaces. I tried multiple things, and also reached out to a classmate who suggested deconstruct brep, and then Cull Item, then merge. I had troubles sorting out the surfaces in list management. I could have made this Lample from steel, cut out my curves with a plasma cutter, welded, and finished in the time it took me to create this. 

I would like to talk about a few things before I attempt my final, as the curves just aren't where I want them to be, yet. 

Materials: I think I will make this out of plexy - I would rather do it out of aluminum but I am not sure I can afford the materials to do so. 

Design Inspiration: I did some research on popular furniture trends and I hated everything I saw as everything is so micro-functional. I like objects that are multi-functional and perhaps because I have lived in an apartment for 10 years I like to keep objects in my life to a minimum, and maximize space. This piece is for my small studio space to provide light, and a table for my tea. Currently I am exploring Bridget Riley's work and I am really interested in organic lines, and optical art. 

Cheers, 

Jess 

Parametric Furniture Concept

Yo! Happy Thursday. 

I would like to make a table lamp on the CNC Machine. Here are my thoughts and attempts at working these problems out in my good friends Rhino and Grasshopper. 

First I started with a sketch. Can't draw to save my life, but you get the idea. 

Then I did it with cardboard to start working through possible geometry and definition before I hit the computer. 

Ready to get started on my design, I began in Rhino as I am more comfortable with the tools in Rhino and the translation between Rhino and Grasshopper is a challenge for my brain, but a welcome one.  

Many Challenges as you can see. I am really excited about this concept though and went into Grasshopper to begin the process of creating this. Here is my beginning definition. 

Challenges:

Shell - Could not figure out how to get this to work. 

Fillet - Could not sort this out either. Had trouble with defining the curve, when I selected my Brep Join it went red on me. Not 100% Sure where to assign the geometry. 

Curve - I would like to be able to break the curve down and alter it. I did build the wiggle curve in Rhino, moved it and then assigned the curve in Grasshopper. 

Things I would like to learn:

Wiggle Curve - The curve shape how I can scale this to different sizes, is it possible to array the curve and then add it to the poly surface before doing a SDiff? I would like to be able to remove negative space from all sides of the surface and different on each surface. I can't even begin to comprehend how to move forward with that. 

Interlocking edges - The other idea I have is to have interlocking edges to put this together. I wonder if I need to build each individual piece and then put them together? 

Eventually I would like to install a light in the bottom section of this table, and then also have a glass pane on the top surface. In a perfect world, I would love one of the edges of the table to open with hinges for easy access to the inside and be able to change the light when needed. 

Lots of work to do and lots of help needed. Looking forward to bringing this idea to life. 

Thanks! See you tomorrow.