Chrysalis (III) by Matsys, Interior View

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Comment by Behnood Eghbali on December 10, 2012 at 5:23am

OMFG!!!

Comment by Benlloyd Goldstein on August 28, 2012 at 3:08am

SO BADDASS!!! Super impressed. Keep up the good work Andrew! 

Comment by Andrew Kudless on July 30, 2012 at 3:51pm

@Rasmus: I'm not sure what you mean by "download the link". If you want a copy of the photo, can't you just right-click and "save image as"? To answer your question about the 360 degrees: If the sum of the angles of that meet at a vertex are anything but 360 degrees that means that the faces around that vertex cannot be unfolded flat without introducing a seam. I wanted to avoid adding extra seams so I calculated the location along a surface normal that would allow the face angle sums at the centroid of each plate to equal 360. See this diagram on my website: http://matsysdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Chrysalis_III_Pl...

@Roman: Yes, this is an art object that was commissioned by an art museum. 

 

Comment by Rasmus Holst on July 30, 2012 at 10:28am

Hey Andrew. 

Great project - I could'nt download the link on the page though.

Nevertheless why do you wanna have the sum of angels in the plate to be 360? And what was your parameters or algorithm for optimizing the cell organisation?

Cheers.

Comment by Roman Bablowsky on July 30, 2012 at 6:34am

great cocoon, but it is used just like a piece of art?

Comment by Andrew Kudless on July 19, 2012 at 2:55pm

@Mateusz: 

- Python: The inner plates at the base of each cell are non-planer but I wanted to cut them from planer material without any seams. I used python to search along a surface normal vector at the center point of each cell for a particular point where the triangles that make up the base plate would sum to 360 degrees. Any sum other than 360 would result in a seam. 

- Lunchbox: Simply Baking the geometry to the Rhino file in a ordered way. Each object had a unique name so that I could look it up later during assembly if needed.

- Rhinoscript: Very small usage. I only used a script I wrote to convert text objects to single-stroke fonts for faster laser cutting.

Comment by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 1, 2012 at 8:01pm

"Tools: Grasshopper, Kangaroo, Python, Lunchbox, Rhinoscript" 

what was "python, lunchbox, rhinoscript" used for ?

Comment by Artyom Maxim on April 19, 2012 at 3:22pm

Congratulations!

Comment by Moshe Nissan on April 17, 2012 at 12:52pm

i really enjoy this project!!!  well done

Comment by Andrew Kudless on April 16, 2012 at 3:45pm

Here are some more images of the project:

http://matsysdesign.com/category/projects/chrysalis-iii/

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