since i tried to slow down a lil this week coz i was emotionally and physically drained out last week frm countless assignments.. now im back on my track in updating the blog as much as i can so as to keep it up to date with what im currently doin...
and i represent the works ive done in week 5...(*the organ sound...dng dng dng dng~).. so taking a step further, i investigated the use of volume and points in creating a form through the technique of vac forming... thus taking an image (the pic that i took looking from above into the plastic spiral model) then i take a small section frm the picture and from there expand it so as to see the pixels of the picture, i repeat the same thing for the inverted version, which is the negative version of it
after that i halftoned both to find out the true pixels or points that form or accumulated the picture and retraced it to autocad so as to form vector lines for laser cutter to read when it cuts the mdf...
back to the positive ones first, i cut the positive points using cardboard with laser cutter then placed it above a mbf and start to drill holes (*coz cant drill holes onto the mdf using laser cutter as it'll just laser thru the mdf).. after that i placed cotton bud one by one onto the holes to form a kind of elevated surface
then i vac form it!.. the result was pretty alrite :) and make sure u check the video of the vac from process...i try to capture the views of the mold itself after vac forming coz some of the cotton buds got torn down or pulled apart...
and the result is pretty impressive!... with undulating cliff like surfaces
then i tried to photomontage it into melbourne city as we eventually need to find a site to propose a studio space in the next phase of the project....it seems like some kinda membrane structures that covered some part of the city with the idea of projecting images and messages onto the membrane itself (*like the projection used in batman) so as to communicating between users in melbourne and users in Pittsburgh (*coz this studio is running hand in hand with another design studio in Pittsburgh)
back to the negative vac form, i started to cut the mold (3 mil) by using laser cutter
then, placed it under the plastic and use another technique of vac forming, called blow forming to create the braille like surface onto the hips plastic sheet... why its called blow form, coz u create a hollow surface and then once the plastic get vac formed, it get sucked down to the hollow surfaces and form natural curve surfaces that didnt touch the bottom of the base, those surfaces are called blow surfaces (*with video too!)
again, i placed the broken vac formed mold (coz it got torn off when i was trying to pull it out frm the tightly held hips which got vac formed onto the surface of the mold) under the light and it added some interesting shadow and light casting aesthetic values... then i was thinking of maybe if i can placed the positive vac form onto the shadow of the negative mold, thus the shadow of the negative would b the positive undulating surfaces while the area with light shined on it will be the negative flat surfaces, and these can be reversed and maybe become a set of rule/system to generate even greater scale of the similar thing
repeating the same thing, i placed the negative in a corner of the melbourne city but with smaller scale this time to check to c if it works better at that scale and its kinda bringing the continuity of the gravity on the surrounding walls onto floor itself and maybe the floor can be a projector or touch screen itself that generated images and displayed items from those circular points
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