Renae Patoskie Week 12: Box

For the geometric unfolding I chose to make a candle holder. With the intention of giving it to a Disney enthusiast I chose to incorporate symbols from her favorite films.

The Sun Motif from Tangled, Tiger to resemble Raja from Aladdin

A Rose to signify Beauty and the Beast and a Conch shell for the Little Mermaid

Each side was dedicated to a single movie so that it could be rotated at the viewers discretion. I imported the images into Illustrator, obtained curves from the images and then imported them into Rhino where I cleaned them up to create appropriate outlines. 

Box and lamp combined cut sheet.

During cutting it became apparent that many of the lines in both the Tiger and Rose images were too near one another, and the intensity of the laser burned the outlines to a crisp. These panels were therefore engraved instead of using inside cuts lines.

Assembled Box: Shell and Rose / Tiger and Suns