I Need a Hand! Or Maybe a Nose?

For our digital cameo project I began work for this project by recreating the brooch backing that Arthur had given us. 

Then I started thinking about traditional cameos and then scrapped that idea instead I wanted something that I had never seen before. 

I did a few sketches of different ways I view myself and what a real "selfie" would be for me. I thought a lot about my hands and how they tell more about myself and my life than a traditional selfie would. I was thinking a lot about how scattered I can be when I'm working. Often times I could use another arm to help me out but unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to grow one. 

I attempted to sculpt my arm and hand in Sculptris. One file turned out better than the other. You can probably tell which one was made first.

I also thought a lot about my glasses and how several of my friends in different departments don't know I have two pairs. They are so used to my beaten down "eyebrow" glasses that when I wear my larger frame ones they always ask if they are new. The funny thing about my glasses is that I hate wearing them and often leave them in weird places because of that. I thought about making my fingers as a brooch as a type of holder for them. I also thought about sculpting my nose to hold them. both would be interesting both with and without the glasses.

Cabbage Patch Kid

Some concepts require no explanations, some are basically unbelievable without proof and some concepts require a helping hand to execute. It's always a joy to see what other people think of especially when it isn't something you would automatically think of. These photos were captured while 3D scanning her head as she was interested in kale and letuce forms as her face. 

 

 

Ghosted: 3D Printed Necklaces

 
 

My Sculptris Sister

So I have a very supportive sister and she was a good sport and sent me a couple selfies. It's not a perfect doppelgänger but I'd say she's pretty close. 

 

 

 

 

PENdant Progress

My pen came off the printer today and I couldn't be happier. Due to the height restrictions I had to print it in two parts but otherwise it seems to be the way I had intended it. Of course I still need to cut the seat for my stones to sit correctly but that shouldn't been too big of a problem to deal with (I'm sure I'll eat my words when I actually have to cut the seats). Part of the pen appears to have become closed off but that's not too big of a loss and will probably make joining the pieces together much easier in the long run. 

As you can see one side is hollow and the other is now solid. It's not a big deal but it is interesting to see how the computer fills in certain areas so that it doesn't collapse. 

 

 

Macros

How about a surprise? Copy and paste this into the Rhino command bar and in one easy step you can have the object that has been described down below! 

_Polyline

0,0

5,3

-2,4

0,0

_SelAll

_ExtrudeCrv

Bothsides=no

1

_SelAll

_ArrayPolar

5,5

15

360

_Enter

_SelAll

_BooleanUnion

Necklace Surgery

Today I finally got my hands on my 3D printed necklace and I couldn't have been more excited to open the boxes.

Upon opening the boxes the parts were a little more stuck together but they looked like a beautiful city scape. 

 

All beauty aside they needed to be separated from each other in order to bend and form to the body. And so I brought out the big guns to get it done. 

Armed with an array of medical tools and many sets of gloves I carefully sliced each part from its neighbor, scraped off the connecting parts and then strung them onto the seperate 3D printed chain. 

After 4 hours, 4 pairs of gloves, 7 exacto blades and one bandaid I finally have the piece together. 

As each part is hollow I decided to have one end of the necklace be printed together with the chain and have the other end be able to be clipped on once the other parts were strung together. This is where the medical clamps came into use. While I had calculated the distance needed to fit the final link onto the necklace I hadn't planned for how small of a space that would be. Holding the end of the chain in one clamp and holding the end cap in the other I finally managed to snap the end onto the chain. I am very glad that I ordered a spare end cap just in case I broke one while asembling the necklace. Thankfully I didn't need it but it's good to have around should anything go wrong.