CONTROLLED VARIATION
MATTHEW ISELY, HALEY PENCE, COURTNEY CORNELL
SHAI YESHAYAHU ARC 252
SIDE VIEW OF COMPLETED SETUP
SHOWING HOW THE DIFFERENT CASTS
LINE UP VERTICALLY
THE VARIOUS CASTS ACHIEVED USING VARIOUS METHODS AND MOLDS SET IN
SUNLIGHT TO SEE THE EFFECTS OF SHADOW ON THEM.
THE FINAL SETUP VIEWED
FROM AN ANGLE ABOVE AND
TO THE RIGHT FROM THE
ORIGINAL SYSTEMS
OPTION ONE WAS RULED OUT OF
CASTING DUE TO THE INHERENT
DIFFICULTIES OF CASTING A SYSTEM AS
COMPLEX, NON- UNIFORM, AND ODDLY
SHAPED AS THIS ONE IS. DESPITE THERE
BEING A PATTERN TO THE SYSTEM, IT
WAS DEEMED TO
OPTION TWO WAS RULED
OUT OF CASTING FOR
REASONS VERY SIMILAR TO
THE FIRST. UNLIKE OTHER
GROUPS WHO HAD VERY
UNIFORM AND SIMPLE
SYSTEMS, OUR GROUPS
WOUND UP WITH MORE
ODDBALL AND STRANGER
SYSTEMS THAT WOULD
HAVE PROVED INCREDIBLY
DIFFICULT TO CAST IN 3D.
OPTION THREE WAS THE SYSTEM WE EVENTUALLY WENT WITH. THE REASON
BEING THAT IT LOOKED AS THOUGH THE VARIABILITY WOULD BE EASIER TO CAST
THAN THE PREVIOUS SYSTEMS WE PRODUCED, AND THE SYSTEM WOULD BE FAR
EASIER TO STACK THAN THE PREVIOUS SYSTEMS. ALSO WE FOUND THAT THE
APERTURES WOULD BE MORE SUITED FOR CASTING RATHER THAN THE CHANGING
SHAPES OF OUR PREVIOUS TWO SYSTEMS.
THE ORIGINAL MODULAR
THE ORIGINAL MODULE SELECTED FOR
CONTINUATION INTO PROJECT 2. THE
BASIS OF THE SHAPE IS HEXAGONS
WITH FURTHER HEXAGONS INSCRIBED
WITHIN THE ORIGINAL TO CREATE A
SERIES OF UNDULATING SHAPES WITHIN
THE MODULE SETUP FOR PROJECT ONE SHOWING THE GROUPING OF MODULES
SETUP IN A HEXAGONAL GRID, WITH THE VARIATION BEING THE VARYING SHAPE
OF EACH INDIVIDUAL MODULE AND THE VARYING SIZES OF THE CENTER
HEXAGONAL APERTURES.
THE TWO ORIGINAL MOLDS ,
AND THE RESULTS OF
THOSE MOLDS. THE CNC
MOLD, BOTTOM RIGHT, MADE
RIGID HEXAGONS LOCATED
AT THE TOP LEFT OF THE
TRIANGLE. THE PEG MOLD
MADE GREAT VARIABILITY.
THE PEG MOLD IS AT THE
BOTTOM LEFT, WITH TWO
MODULARS PRODUCED IN
THE BOTTOM RIGHT
CORNER OF THE TRIANGLE.
THE MOLDS
A CLOSEUP OF THE CNC MOLD, SHOWING
WHERE WE POURED THE PLASTER AND
THE INTERIOR PIECE USE TO CREATE
THE APERTURE.
CLOSEUP OF THE PEG MOLD, WHERE WE
USED PEGS TO CREATE A CHANGING
SURFACE SHAPE OF OUR MODULE.
THE FINAL MOLD WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH 3D PRINTERS. A RHINO FILE ALLOWED US TO
CREATE A SORT OF RIGID VARIABILITY TO THE SHAPE, IN THAT THE SHAPES OF THE
HEXAGONS IS NOT UNIFORM, BUT EVERY MODULE WILL HAVE THE SAME NON-UNIFORM
LOOK. TO CREATE THE APERTURES WE CREATED INTERIOR PIECES TO FIT FLUSH TO THE
MOLD. THESE APERTURE PIECES WERE NOT STRAIGHT, AND TRAVELED THE DIRECTION OF
THE APERTURE THEY WERE CREATING, CREATING SOME STRANGE LOOKING APERTURES
IN THE FINAL PRODUCT.
THE CASTS
THREE CASTS BY THE FIRST TWO MOLDS. FAR LEFT WAS CAST USING
THE CNC MOLD, CREATING VERY RIGID AND UNIFORM LOOKING SHAPES.
THE CENTER AND RIGHT CAST WERE CREATED USING THE PEG MOLD.
HOWEVER THE ONE ON THE RIGHT WAS CREATED USING A PLASTIC BAG
IN BETWEEN THE PLASTER AND THE PLASTIC THAT FORMED THE MOLD.
IT HAS A MUCH MORE UNREFINED LOOK. WE DECIDED WE THOUGHT THE
MORE REFINED LOOK FIT OUR ORIGINAL MODULE MUCH BETTER AND
FURTHER DEVELOPED THAT IDEA INTO OUR 3D MOLD.
THIS IS THE CAST PRODUCED BY OUR 3D PRINTED MOLD. IT COMBINES
THE UNIFORM SHAPE OF THE CNC MOLD, YET ALLOWS FOR VARIABILITY
IN ITS SHAPE BY PROTRUDING VARIOUS PARTS OF THE INTERIOR
HEXAGONS OFF AT DIFFERENT ANGLES. THE INTERIOR APERTURES
PRODUCED, SHOOT OFF AT DIFFERENT ANGLES ADDING A NEW
VARIABILITY NOT ACHIEVED BEFORE IN PROJECT ONE.
CONTROLLED VARIATION
FINAL SETUP
THE FINAL SETUP FOR OUR MODULARS. THE DIFFERENT APERTURES CAN BE
SEEN. THE TOP TWO HAVE LARGE APERTURES SUBTRACTED FROM THE MODULE
THAT ANGLE OFF TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THE MODULE. THE TWO DIRECTLY
BELOW THOSE HAVE APERTURES THAT ANGLE OUTWARDS AT LESS STEEP OF AN
ANGLE CREATING A LESS DRAMATIC EFFECT. THE CENTER HEXAGON APERTURES
ARE STRAIGHT THROUGH WITH NO ANGLE.
FROM THIS ANGLE WE CAN SEE THE
SETUP OF ALL OF THE MODULES TO
CREATE A CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE
MODULES. WE ATTEMPTED TO MATCH
THE VARYING HEIGHTS AND ANGLES OF
EACH MODULE TO GIVE THE ENTIRE
SETUP A FLOWING CONTINUITY TO IT.
FROM THE SIDE, THE
ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE
CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE
MODULES CAN BE SEEN.