The Weave - An Investigation Into the Intersection of Craft and 3D Printing

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Improving the Process To get rid of the flat inner surfaces of the bricks causing us problems, several different versions of creased surfaces were experimented with and evaluated. We finally settled for a variant involving wavy transformations of the straight surfaces in three different directions. By using an undulating plane to cut away from the flat surface, all of the flat inner sides of the bricks could be transformed into wavy ones, and thus, for the second column we were able to produce increasingly consistent bricks. Furthermore we decided to have each layer of the structure to be comprised of only two bricks in the production of the second column, and make the bricks twice as large. Fewer but bigger bricks increase efficiency when 3D printing.

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