Monday, 21 November 2016

3D Print Combined Concepts

Today I started working with an assigned partner to create some even better concepts for the 3D printing project. The idea was to combine some of our concepts to create a hybrid that is both more appealing and interesting.
To start the project I took one of my more appealing concepts, along with some of her ideas to try and create a brand new concept from scratch. Though a key aspect was trying to retain ideas from both of the original models.
The model from me is this one:
 And one of the models that she showed me included this one:

I payed more attention the the star pattern at the top that she used, and I tried to maintain the rotation from my model. I scrapped the triangle base from mine all together, while also scrapping the gradual size change in m partners model. I wanted to make it more akin to a pencil holder perhaps, so I wanted to make sure the space in the middle wouldn't be bottle necked.
The result from various brainstorming and concept generation was this:
Some of the models seemed too sharp to 3D print properly, so we narrowed it down to the few models that have a chance of being 3D printed without too many problems.
We narrowed it down to three different models that we like more than the others.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the first two, but I still think the third one has the highest chance of success. The first one contains the the repeated size and a little bit of the twist from my model, while containing the star shape and the rotations from my partners model. The second model retains the rotation from my partners model, but also contains a more extreme twist as seen in my small triangle pillar. The last one leans more toward my partners original model, but it also still has some of the aspects from my triangular pillar, such as the repeated constant sized star (being in place of a triangle).
My Partner has a blog as well, and it can be viewed here (this is where I obtained the image of my partners 3D model): Partner!
So far I'd say this project is going by quite smoothly, I'm excited to see what my partner will make too.

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