Tapirot's Process Blog

I can't believe it was time to make prototypes. I made a swirly pyramid and printed it to see if the swirls would be applicable in real life. I used the pyramid template I made a week ago. This isn't my final object though. I have finally decided that the object I am going to use is a necklace pendant from an Asian series called Meteor Garden . My boyfriend gave me a necklace of it on my birthday. It wasn't the original million dollar worth of pendant but the fact that he remembers that I love the design of the necklace is enough for me to appreciate it.  I used that photo as a reference for the sketch but for the star I used the polygon setting. I extruded the star to make it solid but I wanted it to be more round than edged, so I asked for helped from Greg and we did fillet edge on the shape.  For the organic shapes, I sketched it and did the sweep2 method in order to make it solid. IT WAS A PAIN. I couldn't join surfaces together and all I can mak...

This project is making me think of how to properly put pieces together and how to destroy it in order to understand it's form. Students are required to build ten forms in Rhino and to unfold them. I researched for paper craft patterns and saw a lot of designs. I tried to understand the patterns and thought of how I can do it on Rhino, but just thinking about it did no help so I went on Youtube for help. I searched for different tutorials and I was able to find a few. Since then I've been watching tutorials and doing them on Rhino, however, I am still not sure if I am doing the project right. I was mostly exploring and playing around the software. Here are the forms I was able to unfold: So this was the first form I did. I sketched a vase from a photo I found on Google. Greg Ball showed us how to make a sketch into a solid object by using sweep 2 rail but unfortunately I forgot how and I was too embarrassed to ask. I was able to find a tutorial but the object did not look...

Our topic for this week was paper craft. I am familiar with this type of art because I am a fan of modular origami. Modular origami is when you combine multiple geometric units formed from multiple sheets of paper to form polygons or polyhedra.  For this week's assignment, students were told to do a research of paper craft artists who inspire them. I have more than one artist that gives me inspiration on a design I planned to make. They are: John Edmark  Raya Sader Bujana Mathew Shlian Hari and Deepti Junji Ito Couple of these artists are not paper craft artists but because of them, I have the drive to create what I want. Here are some of their works. John Edmark  Raya Sader Bujana Mathew Shlian  Hari and Deepti Junji Ito Raya Sader Bujana , Hari and Deepti has the layering style that I am interested in. Their paper craft masterpieces gives off a wonderful three dimensional feel. Bujana's olympic figures were a pro...