Jesus Javier Vela: Project 2 Week 11 Polyhedra

Illuminated Polyhedra

Concept

     Given the semi dome-shaped appearance of the Half Truncated Icosidodecahedron helped envision the sun as a motif in this piece. Shapes were borrowed from past vector graphics I have designed, so it was interesting to re-purpose icons. This piece can be observed as an enclosed space where light enters through openings, and it can also be perceived as a lamp that projects symbols in the environment.

Formatting on Adobe Illustrator

Techniques

     Adobe Illustrator was used to develop the format of the polyhedra. Lines were sorted into layers designating guides, outer cuts, and inner cuts. Because some shapes in the polyhedra were not aligned to neither the X or Y axis, reference lines between shapes' anchors were used for alignment. Making the inner cuts required creating a dotted stroke path as well as simplifying the path.

Front View

Back View

Materials

     The piece was laser printing onto cardboard. the piece was able to stand vertically as well as horizontally. Assembling it required folding the inner cuts then glues the edges together using super glue. In the future, I will consider painting the polyhedra in a metallic color. The color could hint at architecture like the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The color is also industrial, so perceiving the object as a lamp will be feasible.

Charlie Chang: Week 11 Polyhedra

Concept

I wanted to create a design that would made a good lamp. I wanted the cutouts to be reflected on walls with the light from within. I followed the video tutorials the professor posted, and decided to make it my own from then on. 

Techniques

Rhino shot of Truncated Octahedron

I downloaded a PDF of the truncated octahedron file and followed along with the videos provided. When the section about making cutouts played, I made my own designs and chose star shapes. I used an 8 sided star polygon tool, and a 6 sided star polygon tool. I used polar array to add repeated circles to the larger star shapes. I had to size them all down, unfortunately, due to having made them larger than the flaps, which would have affected my model negatively.

Materials

Finished Product

The material for this project was e-flute cardboard. It was cut with a laser from the Machine Shop on campus. Not many other materials were used, but if I were to add to this project, I would provide a light bulb or string lights to place inside.

Marissa Hernandez: week 11 polyhedra

concept: I started off by looking through the site given to us to find which one I would like to make something out of. I came across this model of the Great Dodecahedron and it drew me to it because I like the fact that these looked like stars all over the model. I thought I could add neat designs to the stars to make them look like shooting stars, but when I got the model I had different plans.

rhino file

Techniques: I used Rhino to turn the paths into proper settings for laser cuttings. The outside lines consisted of outer cuts coded in a magenta layer. The reference layer was cyan to measure out the proper width for my cardboard. The inner cut consists of blue, dotted lines to make it able to fold when it comes out of the laser cutter. Then once I got it I changed my mind and folded it the complete opposite way instead of inwards to outwards. This made it look more like a rigid sphere, so I worked a different route. Using the whiteness of the cardboard, I accentuated it with a black outline of certain sides to abstractly show the negative sides.

Materials: For the materials  I only used the source of the library of different polyhedras to choose from. I then used the cardboard for the design to be cut out of.

polyhedra overall

one side of  polyhedra

Jonathan Holt Week 11 Polyhedra

DC comics Motherbox

Concept: For my polyhedra design, I wanted something I could use. So I decided to make an objective marker for a DC game that I own so I made the motherbox from DC comics. I will end up cutting this out again at about 1/4 of the size to make it to scale. I made it larger to get a better picture.

Motherbox Illustrator file

Techniques: I used a box file online as a template to create the vector files on top of it. I then drew the designs in using the pen tool. I made sure to add different layers with the different colors to give outside and inside cuts.

Motherbox cutout

Materials: I cut out the motherbox out of e-flute cardboard. When I do it again for the board game I will probably use card stock to keep it small and easier to put together. I will then paint it to look metallic.

Ryland Smith Week 11 Polyhedra

Concept: I did a truncated cube as it seems to have an organic and inorganic look to it.

Techniques: I pulled the PDF into illustrator to act as a pass through. I then opened the exported dxf into rhino and organized the layers. I would add inner cut designs that both add curvilinear organic lines and rectilinear inorganic lines, exploded all objects and it was ready to be laser cut. 

Rhino Layered

Materials: The truncated cube was cut on e-flute cardboard, spray painted with black primer, layered with brown spray paint and light brown spray paint. The earth tones would harmonize with the organic nature of the truncated cube to accentuate the organic nature I wished to highlight. 

Pre Paint

With Paint

Asa Rodriguez Polyhedra

Concepts
I have always been interested in miniatures and found the house model to be pretty charming. As I have already focused one project on my cat, I decided to try and size this for him as a sort of bed area for him.
Techniques
I worked mainly in Illustrator on this piece, resizing and reformatting the pieces to fit on the cardboard. I also added in a door and a window in, as they were only engraved in the original.

Materials
The house was produced in e-flute cardboard, but ideally I would make the house slightly larger, produce it in a more durable material (either a thicker cardboard or wood that slotted together), and paint it to look like a traditional cottage.

Jack Purcell: Week 11 - Polyhedra

Concept: I knew that I wanted to incorporate geometric designs into my Polyhedra as Polyhedra are based on geometric designs themselves. I also wanted it to incorporate some kind of natural element and in the end I found out that the natural design of spiderwebs compliment the hexagons of my chosen Polyhedra. I also wanted to incorporate another element into my project, and I chose light and turned it into a lamp.

Process: First I imported the Polyhedra PDF into Rhino and separated it into the different layers to be laser cut. I then took that into Illustrator so that I could create the patterns. I created a hole so that I could attach a light fixture and turn it into a lamp. When I originally sent it in to be laser cut I was told it had some problem. I then took it back into Rhino and reassigned the layers, then there was no problem and the file was cut.

Materials: While this project was made with cardboard I would like to make another version out of wood and not have it fold together. I would also like to include a diffusion sheet behind the panels so that the light is evenly diffused.

Mary Effler: Polyhedra Project

I used to love making little paper craft toys as a kid, and for a while at work lately, my coworkers and I would print out a lot from http://www.papercraftmuseum.com/ and put them up around work. So this project was pretty fun for me to do. I started out with the low pentagrammic pyramid model: 

I had originally made some designs on it after moving it into Illustrator and prepping it for laser printing, but since the engraving layers and the like aren't being printed right now, those didnt make it to the final model:

I put together the printed form with Loctite, after using my little multitool knife to make some of the folds and perforations easier to fold:  

Since I didn't have the added in cut outs and the like, I was wondering how best to go about decorating it before Monday. As I mentioned in my drum model though, I really like the idea of art where other people are encouraged to pick it up and mess with it, rather than just observing it. So I took it to a coffee shop I frequent near my house, called Cafe Bohemia. The owner is an artist herself, and loves leaving various art supplies around for people to play with. They first took some spray paint to it, where we just left it for a day next to a bunch of paint and told people to go nuts. Then we left it next to a black sharpie, and 10 people decorated a side. Here's the finished result:

Sowmya Rajendran: Project 7: Geometric Unfolding

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Week 14:

For the Geometric Unfolding practice assignment, I decided to make a Cubohemioctahedron. I made the cut sheet in Illustrator and exported the layout into Rhino in order to explode the curves and check for overlapping objects. I was able to fit two templates into the 24 x 48 cardboard sheet.

Cut sheet laid out in Rhino

Cardboard template

Here's the final model all folded up!