Ahhhh models

So sweet is the plastics and gypsum. The school has an ABS printer and 2 "starch" printers. One used to be starch and the newer ZCorp 310 is a gypsum plaster printer. It has a bed and it rakes a solid layer of dry plaster across then sprays "binder" across it to make a solid component, then repeats the process layer by layer until you have a completed part. After removal, you can put it in a machine that waxes the plaster to give it strength, and yes it needs it they are rather brittle beforehand. Due to the thin-ness of my piece I chose to run the last iteration through the plastic printer real quick. By real quick I mean 23 hours later it was done. The plaster printers are a lot faster and print a complete cavity in 4-5 hours. (and for a whole lot less money I might add)





This piece was an iteration between the plastic and complete startch print. It was quite a bit bigger and had to be printed in 5 pieces. Pushing the limits of the machine with the thin-ness of the parts I finally had one fail. This one was just too brittle to even glue, it would fail beside the joints I would glue. So I saved a piece just to have an enlarged view of the connections. These were some more iterations on the patterning derived from the polygons. With ideas of the outcome being used for different aspects of a site installation.
ABS print in progress, this was just too cool to leave out.