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Alejandro Alvarez Cyber+Spoke Nigel Brockbank Malte Wagenfeld RMIT
PROJECT To present the objective of this project, here I paraphrase the words of Nigel Brockbank and Malte Wagenfeld: The goal of this project is to explore the possibilities of digital fabrication, exploring the potentials of high tech tools and implementing them to create a digitally inspired design appropiate to this new technology. This product must be visionary, yet commercial, exploratory, yet within reach of a real target market audience. You embrace this dynamic cultural shift and the opportunity to explore what had previously been the realm of dreams and science fiction.
Personally I tried to harness the possibilities of joining technologies such as 3D scanning and 3D printing, exploring the outcomes of making them work together and applying them to different scenarios raging from history to nostalgia. Also I came up with more service ideas than product ideas, since services seemed more appropiate for this new technologies.
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INSPIRATION A broken piece of fine porcelain found in an Australian backyard and a broken piece of prehispanic clay found in a Mexican field may be very different but they also have some similarities: both are a mystery, the original shape is lost forever and may never be recovered as it was originally, but that single piece also stimulates the imagination, what was it? a cup? a teapot? in the case of the prehispanic piece, was it used in a religious ritual?; besides that, what could that piece become? how would those surfaces may be part of a new object? All this questions were the inspiration of this project and the starting point to develop three services that may help answer some of those questions.
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SERVICE I named this services Recover 3D to reflect the main idea of them: recovering the lost shape of a broken object, nevertheless this is not the only outcome, in the next graph the 3 services are shown:
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Recover for you Scanning and incorporation of a broken piece of ceramic/china into a new 3D printed object. Aimed at a broad audience.
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Recover History Aimed at scientific institutions such as museums and universities, to investigate archaeologycal pieces.
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Recover Gifts Set in museums and galleries to offer visitors the possibility of 3D printing replicas of the objects exhibited.
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Scanning and incorporation of a broken piece of ceramic/china into a new 3D printed object. Aimed at a broad audience.
How it works? A client interested in recovering a broken piece of fine china/ ceramic/cristal visits Recover3D, were they scan the piece or pieces to rebuild. The client can specify if he wants a piece very similar to the original one or if he wants a new object with the original piece embedded in it. The technicians work on the piece, the object is printed, and the client receives a new 3D printed object with the original piece incrustated in it.
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RECOVER HISTORY
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Aimed at scientific institutions such as museums and universities, to investigate archaeologycal pieces.
How it works? Institutions, schools and companies can send the objects they want to get scanned to Recover3D, where they use 3D scanning to generate digital versions of the object mantaining the exact surfaces and characteristics. This information can be used for research and in the case of the academic instituitions such as design schools, for developing new products with shapes and surfaces that were created hundreds of years ago.
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Set in museums and galleries to offer visitors the possibility of 3D printing replicas of the objects exhibited.
How it works? After a visitor leaves the museum or gallery exhibition goes to the gift shop were he can browse the collection in a computer, the visitor can look for a special piece he particulary enjoyed and print a replica, in the size and color desired. The replica is printed and the client has the option of waiting for the piece to be ready or to get it delivered to their address. This way pople can engage more with the pieces exhibited and get to actually touch a exact replica.
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RESEARCH In order to experiment alternate ways of producing a digital version of a real object, regardless of 3D scanning techniques, I went to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) to photograph part of the fine porcelain collection from asian cultures. Using this photographs and a CAD program (Rhinoceros) I delineated the profile of the vases, then I used the revolving tool to create a solid surface, this way I replicated the original piece as a 3D digital version using a 2D image.
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PRINTING Since this project is more about srvices than products, the objects printed were experimental, to show some of the possible outcomes or new shapes that can be achieved with 3D printing technology.
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Alejandro Alvarez Cyber+Spoke Nigel Brockbank Malte Wagenfeld RMIT
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