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PATTERN DESIGN FOR GEOMETRY
Figure 38: Surface Pattern 1
Figure 39: Surface Pattern 2
Figure 40: Surface Pattern 3
Figure 41: Surface Pattern 4
As the pattern is selected in Figure 32, it is applied to the 1.5 mm plywood as a next step. In Figure 38, the pattern is cut in the whole surface, without any extraction except the central circle. As it is seen in the figure, some central patterns which are in smaller pattern scale burned while laser cutting, and also some diagonal parts burned as well.
Figure 40 was the carved out version of Figue 39 to test the bending capacity with solid diagonals, however, it did not work properly.
In Figure 39, in order to avoid the burning, diagonal solid surfaces are added and tested. The solid parts were limiting the bending capacity of the surface in terms of creating 6 different curvatures.
In Figure 41, we tried out without the solid diagonal surfaces and it worked well in terms of creating the doubly curved surfaces that are desired. In Prototype 1, Figure 41 will be tested.
