Bye tenerife, I hardly knew ye!
Scanning art in the making...
As part of a proces way to complex for me I scanned in the beginnings of a work of art. Sculptor Guido van Ophoven is making a series of sculptures which can be viewed here: http://www.guidovanophoven.nl/boersma&vanophoven01.html
He will use the 3D scan to mill out a set of molds larger then would be practical without this digitizing step, if I understood correctly. I am very curious to see the result!
Installed 3D Studio R4 just for good old times sake...
As with old games often it is best to leave those rosy memories you have of them intact and not play them again.
Turns out same goes for applications. 3D Studio R4 was the first 3D application I used back in '95 and boy did allot change in 16 years! That I was able to create anything with that application at all is a small miracle!
Every action you want to do is hidden 3 menu's deep and almost no shortcut keys. No shading in the viewports and no way to quickly move the camera in the viewport or select anything quickly...
Lot has indeed chanced but I now think the user interface might be one of the most important improvements!
Random pic of the day...
De burg, Langedijk..
3D printing a shoe burger....
At work we had a little competition. Last Christmas we received a voucher to design our own sneakers at Adidas, Nike and Converse. A fun gift for sure. However this gift came with a twist: make something creative with the theme: "I am my sneakers". The winner would win a trip to NY for 2 persons. My wife quickly came with the idea to create an shoe burger. This must surely be the most US themed shoe of the competition.
The first few steps where relatively straight forward albeit kind of high tech for cooking adventures: scanned my shoe with an nextengine 3D scanner and sent it to shapeways to be printed in their brand new frosted detail material. This material is more expensive per cubic cm then for example the white strong and flexible they offer but since the wall thickness of the frosted detail can be razor thin it turned out cheaper in the end.
Who knew that liquid food save silicone rubber existed! But it does! http://www.smooth-on.com/Smooth-Sil=-Plat/c1131/index.html
Ordered a bucket and painted it on the shapeways print I received within 10 days. Somewhere I read it was not advisable to just pour the silicone in a cake tin and press the print into the pink goo. This would result in a massive block of silicone rubber which the heat of the oven would not penetrate. So I painted the silicone onto the print instead.
Once dried the silicone came of the print easily. It was however a bit wobbly and I needed to support it by a few thin threads to keep its intended shape.
The thin walled print also made for a perfect cookie/meat cutter by the way.
In the end I made 3 prototypes before the final version. The trick was to make the dough more liquid so it would flow in all parts of the mold.
The mold was even dishwasher proof so after that culinary adventure I thought it might be fun to see if chocolate would work as well. It did! Even more details could be seen and the end result was far more edible!
Lots of super creative people at indg.com made for quite some competition for first place. And although I did not win a few sites gave posted something about it which makes my day!:
This was a unusual but fun little project!
Cheese fondue and sangria multi culti much?
Since today is our summer; having dinner in the back yard :)
Random pic of the day
Aaand.. done painting Daniel!
Nice end of a productive week! Still got lots to do however. Vic's scans will be next before I'll return to other scans of Daniel.
Luc's Scan done!
Luc's scan done! Now only Daniel's, Vic's and Sue's scan and then I am current again! Luckily I am getting quite good at the texturing part. Definitely had a +1 moment earlier.
Normally I also make masks for the models to differentiate the material properties like eyes, hair clothing etc. But since these models are for printing and I have still a lot to do I restrain myself :)
