Category: Fall 2023

Hi everyone! For project 2 I was inspired by the different existing taxonomy of cocktail and wine glasses, so I started off with a tween through 5 different glass types. Upon further research though, I learned that you cannot eat or drink out of things that have been 3D printed because there are microscopic holes where bacteria can collect that can be harmful. So, I decided to keep my original idea, but make the cups for plants. Hence “Tipsy Planters”. The different cups can serve as a way to organize your plants by category the same ways drinks are. Additionally I decided to no do a tween though 5 different surfaces. Instead I made 1 long code, where I could use a bezier graph to control the the size and location for the stems and cup parts of the glasses. 

Learning to 3D print these was both fun and challenging. There was definitely a lot of trouble shooting, but I’m super happy to have the knowledge now. Also, when it worked and I got a beautiful print, it was extremely satisfying. 

In my presentation, I used a colored metal for each cup rendering, and I don’t think it allows for people to actually see all the complexities the cups have. I messed around with different materials in rhino trying to get ones that show all the complexities of the slices, but nothing does the cups justice compared to the actual prints. Regardless, I added the more natural material shots I got. They do show the slices, but still not the degree I would want.

Anyway, this was a super fun project and I was super happy that we spent time learning to the 3D print. I think like many of my classmates, I’m itching to get one of my own now (I just don’t have the space in my apartment unfortunately).

Here is my project 2

Here is my project 1

AR video

Hi everyone! For project 1 my goal was to get a field of shapes of my choosing to follow an attractor point. I had the attractor point follow a swirly line over the grid. The cones around the point get smaller. I would have like to get it so that the tops of the cones, would almost flop away from the attractor point, but that was a bit advanced for my grasshopper knowledge at the beginning of the semester. At the beginning of the semester, I struggled a bit to get the materials I wanted, and to get the colors alternate every other pyramid figure, but I ended up working through it. I include the slides, a close up picture, the gif of the slides, and the grasshopper coding I used.

-Katy