Surface Design: CAM SIMULATION

As I have done this before, prepping my design for the CNC machine was a walk in the park! Here are some photos of my process.

 And here is it simulated! It looks pretty good if you ask me :)

BLOG POST: Parametric Surface Design: Progress 2

So I worked a little more on my design! I added two more cyclical swirls using the polar array object and then I added some text to really put my stamp on it.

  I enjoy the tile, I think putting text is a new and interesting way of marking my territory over it haha

. I have some questions about that though, because I couldn't figure out how to make the text block 3D and bake it into a rhino object.. I just made it in rhino and added it after I worked with the base, using volponoi and polar array . 

I tried variations of point locations and what it'd be like without the added geometry and just the text. 

and came up wih four iterations of a similar concept. I don't know which one I enjoy more but the grasshoppper web I got myself into gives me anxiety haha 

But yeah! Any one of these three I'm totally down to do :)

CNC 3D Design?

At first I started creating the baseline of the voronoi object as we did in class which was fairly straightforward. I knew I wanted to do something with this design because I thought the look was super cool, but I wanted to do something beyond that...

I started by playing with the idea of changing the boring dimensions of the bounding box then realized I wanted to try and make some organic geometry to encapsulate it.

So I made a ton of individual points so I could construct my own organic geometry as I did with my plotter drawings. I ended up making a curve that kinda resembled half of the yin yang symbol and then I used polar array to complete the aesthtic.

Extruded everything and capped it!

And Voila! A rendered surface design! I think I'm getting a lot better with this program but we still have our moments haha. This project went much more smooth due to just a better understanding of the nature of the grasshopper.