Prism #1 Prism #2 ***I will take better documentation photos tomorrow during round-table discussions and post them to the blog.*** I have finally finished the assembly of both of the prisms. The first prism was a real headache to assemble at times. Due to the laser cutter being down, it had damaged some of my material, so there are little stress fractures around the perimeter of some of the pieces. The real struggle was finding the little nuts and bolts to be used in the joinery. I went to them, but they were not of a size carried at retail. Several shops and they could only be ordered special. I eventually did get the screws, but they did not fit perfectly into the joinery pieces I had laser cut, but eventually, we did manage to get them to fit and slotted all of the acrylic slides. It looks much better without the epoxy holding all the mirrors together and is more structurally sound. I want to find a more reflective surface for the mirror's backside. However, the new prism desig...
This week has been a struggle to assemble my pyramid. As I spoke about last week, for whatever reason the laser cutter only half cut through some of my material, making it so I had to physically push it out by hand. While this method worked to remove the pieces themselves, it did leave minor stress marks around the border of those pieces, on top of that some of the smaller pieces could not be forced out and they did shatter. This week I am planning one more appointment with the laser cutter and then I plan on assembling the first prism. However, this week, I experimented with using projections and lights on the mirrored acrylic. Below is the documentation for that. https://youtu.be/ktv7gm4JVnI On top of that I did assemble the second prism that I had lasercut and begun the process of drawing on it. Below is the documentation for that.
Here is my animated gif! It was a lot of fun playing around with sliders to create variation within the different layers of the gif. Below is a picture of my workflow I know that I was meant to upload a high-res image of the workflow through the Grasshopper menu; however, every time I attempted to export this way, grasshopper would only recognize the upper half of the workflow and spit out an image that looked like the one below. I could not find a solution to this problem, so I looked for insight into how to fix this issue. Here are some closer shots so the text and nodes can be read. Definition Animation Here are the gifs for the definition of the animation. In animation #2, there is some weird light flickering where the frames are rendered darker than the rest. I wasn't sure what was causing this problem and even tried deleting and replacing lights to fix it, but it did not solve the problem. Here is the workflow for this definition: As mentioned above, I had the same pr...
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