Zachariah Miller & Michael Prestidge: Final Pepakura

For our pepakura project, we decided to go with the chess theme and created a rook piece. Zach created this piece in Maya and wanted it to look like a strong model as the rook is portrayed as a castle tower. After finalizing the piece in Maya, we unwrapped it in pepakura designer and brought the unwrapped piece into Rhino to create the fold lines using Grasshopper.

We didn't realize until after the piece was printed that we made the model more difficult to assemble because we unwrapped most of the pieces vertically rather than radially. However, despite this oversight, assembly was fairly straightforward. We attached the sides of the body first, then added the base, put together the top, and finally added the top to the main structure. There are a couple imperfections along some of the folds, but the piece is structurally sound and any imperfections could easily be hidden by tape and paint. Overall, we were both extremely pleased with how this project turned out.