No - Support Sculptures

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    I was really excited to start this project, because I love 3-D printers and printing in general, as I have my own printer at home. I also got a little bit of an advantage with this, as I have about a year of 3-D printing knowledge that definitely helped me out during the project.




    This was the very first model I made for this project, albeit it is a bit simple but I think it shows off the main components of this project pretty well. I wanted to use some of the new commands we learned as much as possible throughout this project, and I think I have learned a lot about rhino.



    I actually accidentally made these prong forms while playing around with the loft function. I attempted to loft a bunch of circles into points to make some cones, and I made a prong. I then found out that it would result in a slightly different prong form and direction depending on where I attempt to loft the arrangement. Once I found this out, I also realized that putting the shapes together make a really interesting abstract fire sculpture, so I arranged them to better symbolize that.




    This one was very fun to make. With this project I wanted to really stretch the limits of what is possible and what is, and I think this one is a very good example of that. To make sure that this model can print without support, I figured out that I can print it upside - down and then there wouldn’t be any bad overhangs that would fail the print. I really love how this one came out and am leaning towards printing this one.





    I wanted to have a few models, and these two are what I settled with. I managed to incorporate a hole through the model with the former, something that I really hoped to do with a model. I also wanted to add a dome to one of them, so I added one to the latter.




    For this final one I settled with a more traditional sculpture, something more expected but with a great shape nonetheless. I do really like how all of the spikes convene on the middle point, it gives the model a really nice focal point and drives the eye towards the top.


    Overall I had a lot of fun experimenting with this project, finding solutions and new ways to make things work. I think I managed to make some pretty interesting models, with something unique for each.

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