Sensitive Ceramics_Pattern #1-#5

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    Abstract

    Exhibition as a part of the All Makers Now? conference, 10-11 July 2014. A two-day conference exploring craft values in 21st century production.

    General description of the contribution:
    The exhibit is showing examples from an experiment about an interactive digital design tool for designing ceramics. The experiment is working on two levels. One which has to do with designing compositions and patterns in a virtual 3d universe based on a digital dynamic system that responds on the movement of the hands. The user’s hands appear on a monitor screen as a pattern of circles, the size and 3d inner pattern of which are reflecting the position and speed of the hands. In that way the user is able to interact and model a responding pattern. The second level has to do with realizing the modules in ceramics by 3d printing directly in porcelain with a RapMan printer that coils up the 3d shape in layers.

    Description of making:
    To capture the movement of the hands a “Kinect” developed for the video game console X-box is used. The Kinect records the movement which is input to an interactive 3d parametric system developed in Rhino with the plugin Grasshopper. The movement is transformed into circles with a 3d pattern in a composition that reflect the position and speed of the hands on a screen. Subsequently each of the 3d modular patterns is translated into a code. The code informs a RapMan 3d printer to print directly in porcelain layer by layer. After printing the porcelain is glazed and fired to 1280 degrees.
    The drawings are showing systematic examples of what can be done within a specific parametric setup.
    Translated title of the contributionSensitive Ceramics_Pattern #1-#5
    Original languageEnglish
    Publication date2014
    Media of outputCeramics
    Size50x17x2 cm.
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    EventAll makers now? - Trelissick House, Trelissick Garden, Feock, Truro, Cornwall, Falmouth, United Kingdom
    Duration: 10 Jul 201411 Jul 2014

    Conference

    ConferenceAll makers now?
    LocationTrelissick House, Trelissick Garden, Feock, Truro, Cornwall
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityFalmouth
    Period10/07/201411/07/2014

    Keywords

    • Ceramics
    • interactive tools
    • 3d printing
    • Craft
    • digital crafting
    • digital design
    • Architectural design

    Artistic research

    • Yes

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