Soft organic shapes 3D printed in clay
Here, the model was queried by people - how, how did you do this, why is the skin sort of like, strange, well
I made the model in Secondlife, a playful online MMORPG - creators computer "game". I exported it and put in cura printed in pet first, just to see if the model has some problems, then put model in cura for clay printer. If interesting, then print in clay, this way i could see the differences between pet and clay.
I like to make shapes that are more free form not rigid heavy stuff. I want to make sculptures that are strong and light weight, not heavy footed things. When the material could be light weight and super strong, thats really beautiful.
Sometimes I dont want mathematical precision, I only want "eye" precision, human eye precision, for a piece of work to look natural, the object must arrange to sit at its own centre of mass, it will always look right. It can re distribute its own tension and not force an outer form onto a rigid structure. When you see someone walking with a slight limp, or a stiff body, its because they are in pain, they try to compensate the body so its less painful. They avoid the pinched nerve or try to make balance from an imbalance due to some accident.
NB
I use a computer game software to make my 3d print objects, because the principle is, how to export virtual world Secondlife objects to real life objects, is it possible?
How does a child make an object at 4 year old? How come it always - with every child whatever the level of natural talent - looks right? vis a vis the child and to our eyes too. One of the best Mona Lisa reinterpretation is made by a child.
I even made the guqin music instrument model in Secondlife using prims, just to see what happens in real life when you actually print it out and not use the current "mesh" which is importation of real life objects into Secondlife virtual world, these are v sophisticated models as they are real life models.
When you are in "play" mode, does it turn on some other facilities in your brain and not incur "tireness"? Do you have extra endorphins/dopamine in your system?
In a computer game software, the volumes are not aligned perfectly, its by "eye", if one wants to align perfectly you could also use mathematical alignment then its perfect. But i want it to look handmade, thats why i prefer "eyeing" method.
The Secondlife virtual object is first printed in pet, just to see if there are any problems, transparent pet. Sometimes if the object is too big, i first use netfabb to cut it to smaller sizes, then reassemble later.
Fired and glazed stoneware, a tiny test of a double layered mug - see the "knitting" effect inside, and the flying bridging clay travel lines. Once fired, these filaments are quite tough, rigid. V interesting quality.
PET version to see the model in physical form before printing in clay.
This disk is part of a free model downloaded from the internet. :)
The file has been adapted for clay printing by Piotr and kindly printed to let me see the feasibility.
Piotr introduced this researcher creators book, you could also see his talk on youtube.
and on instagram
Additional ways of printing by specialists
Professor LEE Taekyeom
3D Printing Ceramics with a Self-Built 3D Printer and Clay Extruder
Piotr Waśniowski : ...it is one open curve prepared in Rhino and is not transferrable into stls. You have to own Rhino to open and edit this file and then use Grasshopper to generate gcode from this file.
: non linear plenar printing, Rhino , grasshopper see samples on youtube, instagram...
minimum one 3d software that can generate stls and then use cura or PrusaSlicer to generate gcode. If you want to print your prints in my way Rhino is necessary.
Piotr Waśniowski grasshopper generated gcode print
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Nathan Builds Robots
Very good presentation of a hobby ceramic 3D printer.
grass hopper online course, concrete printing etc, recommended by someone in the reddit group
Other related topics:
printing with trimmer lines, which means nylon, its a flexible object, v reistant, i will try it!
Can you 3D Print with Trimmer Line?!
Advantages of using grasshopper to generate gcode
March of the Algorithms
Grasshopper was released as a Rhinoceros add-on in 2014 and since then has gathered a vibrant community of designers, engineers, artists, and architects. It has its own user interface panel separate from the 3D viewport in which users can add functional blocks of code.
These blocks are connected, forming a node network through which data passes to generate increasingly elaborate designs. Instead of the geometry itself, only the definition gets saved, which conveniently minimizes file size, making it easier to share Grasshopper files. The final result of creating with Grasshopper is a mesh object ready for 3D printing.
But Grasshopper is not only for the code junkies out there; after a week or so of learning and experimentation, the program becomes quite intuitive because of its visual nature. And for those working with additive manufacturing technology, it turns out to be an indispensable tool for making geometry that other modeling environments could only dream of. The following are some of the main advantages of using Grasshopper.
https://3dprint.com/tag/grasshopper/
https://3dprint.com/299261/bambu-killers-1-before-bambu-after-bambu/
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1524048237936046 directly generate gcodes from grasshopper
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