Tiled Pieces

The left over pieces from the larger lattice I cut on the router are interesting.

They are a little plain though. I feel that the contrast was lacking so I bumped it up a bit. I am interested in seeing more of this. Once again the remnants of making something else are now things that I thinking about.

A Few New Things

I am creating new things for my capstone in digital fabrication and design. At this point I am still in the experimentation phase. I still have a million ideas that I would like to work thorough and try, but I think for the time being I will be focusing on patterns and what I can do with them in regards to using the router, laser cutter, and Tormach mill. (Although I did try one additional thing this week)

 
Same pattern with both the router and the laser cutter. I really like the scale shift, and wonder about making the work piece for the router version even larger.
In the image bottom left I painted the pattern in gloss on a matte background, when I places the larger lattice over it there were some interesting things that happened with the pattern and shadow. Unfortunately with the set up I had I didn't capture any images that really portrayed the contrast.
The shadow by itself looks pretty great though.

When I overlap scale and glossiness interesting things happen and I wonder how that will work with some of the other things I have tried so far.

Sample three

Sample three is on luan again also using gloss paint. I want to expand on the idea of patterns and also not be limited to the 12" x 16" bed of the laser cutter.

More tests

This set is 4 colors on masonite. For this set I used matte paint which scorched in a different way than the gloss. I am sure the change in paint plays an effect, and am wondering if a longer cure time will help. 36 hours is a good amount of time, but even matte paint would still be off gassing at that point, when you introduce the heat of a laser I am sure this plays an effect. Since I am considering these as tests I need to figure out how to roll through them quickly and not end up with these blemishes.


and again the remnants look so nice!

Tests

I am working on some samples for one of the classes. I am exploring the capabilities of the laser cutter at the moment, and combining it with different ideas that deal with patterns and stenciling. This first step involves cutting patterns into various materials. This first set is 3 colors cut into luan.


There is some scorching on the pieces. It seems that the gloss paint allows me to clean it up, but its not the desired effect. On a side note the remnants of the process of making the cuts has a beautiful an unintended randomness that I love.