Katrina Brooks - FINAL

For my final project, I chose to use my FDM model. I enlarged it to fit the ULS laser, although they decided it would be quicker to print with the beam. Six different 1/4 inch dowels were used to hold it together. Many of the contours needed to be fixed before printing. Overall, I am happy with the result, although I wish that they had not rotated the cardboard when they printed it, as this made the corrugation irregular.

Katrina Brooks - Laser Exercises

The first exercise was the notches. These were cut out of luan.


For the serial stacking exercise I used my model from the CNC milling project. Contours were made from the model using the width of 2ply cardboard. A 1/4 inch dowel was used to hold it together.




The final exercise was waffle structures. I created a simple shape on Rhino: a cube with a sphere cut out. I then used the Grasshopper script to cut the notches and layout my pieces before having them cut from cardboard.

Katrina Brooks - Project 2

Here is my rendering in context. I would have liked to use a backplate more significant to my work, however all images that I tried to use were unsuccessful in Keyshot.


Here is the piece that I created for Beginning Sculptural Processes 2. This was carved out of pink foam, covered with epoxy, and painted with acrylics. The hands and feet were caste in plaster from my own.


For my second project, I decided to design a model for a sculpture that I am making out of foam and epoxy in another class. The model I have designed is somewhat different from my sculpture. Both have the same pig form with human hands and feet and a bat, which represent a mythological creature. They differ in position and, of course, in material. Photos of my sculpture will be posted soon. My process for the model involved taking various parts of preexisting models and combing them using both Rhino and Maya. I then added the texture by using the extrude tool in Maya.

Katrina Brooks Project 1

This is my final for this assignment. I wanted to integrate the nontraditional shape of the "lamp" with the base that I found. I made a silicon mold from the milled foam, cast it twice in aquaresin, glued it together, drilled out some holes, and painted it to match.



The top picture is my very long awaited milled foam! The next picture is an experiment with the laser cutter in serial stacking out of cardboard.





For Project #1, creating a relief with Rhino, I decided that simple was my objective, seeing that I have never used the program before. I created this "shape" using exclusively the Boolean command. Sometimes subtractively, sometimes additively, I joined various polygons to make my ending result.