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Erik Smithson
March 2nd Year
About me: I am an avid designer who is currently finishing my last year of M.arch. I enjoy soccer (football), the ocean and discovering things. Generator: The name of the blog is its intention. I want to use this blog as a place filled with useful information to generate ideas.
Questions? Or just want to chat? Contact him on z3158835@student.unsw.edu.au
4:20 AM | Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Structural Growth I
Project Name: Laser Cutting Exercise
Group Members Involved: Erik Smithson and Paul Vu
Requirements: a sheet of cardboard, a 60grand laser cutter and some imagination.
Point: To understand how to use the laser cutter and to have some fun!
The initial idea was to create three spheres of different densities that when inside each other creates an interesting layering effect.
The next step was to then create these shapes on illustrator to define the shapes to cut out (requires vector lines for precision). The small shapes are about five cm by 2cm (you can imagine the precision of the laser):
We had them cut and took about 12min. The rigid shapes were assembled without glue and the structure was quite strong. It is also very interesting in the way these regular geometries ended up forming into such an organic shape:
Above: We had large, medium and small sized pieces to create three attempts at spheres, fitting one in the other.
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