This week's assignment entitled "Fold" did not necessarily spark my artistic interest. Considering I am taking this course to force myself to learn Rhino, I decided to render one of my upcoming works in rhino to enable myself to plot the pieces that will eventually be cut on the CNC table out of aluminum. No one in town (Tampa, FL) has the capabilities to bend 2"x6"x3/16" aluminum tubing "the hard way" (on edge). Using a smashed view of the rhino file i can have the individual pieces for the bend cut to be then welded together. Last week I struggled to tie the paper "bend" assignment into what my current practice entails. That being said, the immediate use-value of rendering the this project virtually enlivened the monotony of stumbling through the program and fell in line with the bend project more fluidly (and literally). Here is a few screen shots of the work.... it is essentially a fabricated aluminum road barrier bent over backwards in an uncomfortably impossible pose to be chrome plated and polished with etched caution stripes.
This week's assignment entitled "Fold" did not necessarily spark my artistic interest. Considering I am taking this course to force myself to learn Rhino, I decided to render one of my upcoming works in rhino to enable myself to plot the pieces that will eventually be cut on the CNC table out of aluminum. No one in town (Tampa, FL) has the capabilities to bend 2"x6"x3/16" aluminum tubing "the hard way" (on edge). Using a smashed view of the rhino file i can have the individual pieces for the bend cut to be then welded together. Last week I struggled to tie the paper "bend" assignment into what my current practice entails. That being said, the immediate use-value of rendering the this project virtually enlivened the monotony of stumbling through the program and fell in line with the bend project more fluidly (and literally). Here is a few screen shots of the work.... it is essentially a fabricated aluminum road barrier bent over backwards in an uncomfortably impossible pose to be chrome plated and polished with etched caution stripes.
