Week 6

3D printing

I started off the week printing out a component for my Tech module, this was ok, but I was not really learning anything,

Test went well for part of the bike light v4 concept #productdesignstudent #fablabbtn

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so I tried out StructureSynth to create geometry from code.

Structure Synth

Syntax

First up was testing out the sytanx that structure synth used

and then to create something interesting Using the below code:

set background #fff
#define _md 400
#define _rz 0
#define _zoom 1

set maxdepth _md

{ rz _rz s _zoom } r0

rule r0 {
3 * { rz 120  } R1
3 * { rz 120 } R2
}

rule R1 {
{ x -1.3 rz 1.57 rz 6 ry 13 s 0.99 hue 1 sat 0.99 } R1
{ s 4   color black } box
}

rule R2 {
{ x -1.3 rz 6 ry 13 s 0.99 hue 1 sat 0.99 } R2
{ s 4 a 1  color red } box
}

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Coding a model for printing using structure synth was interesting but a ton of fun! #productdesignstudent #fablabbtn

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Scanning

As I had played around with photogrammetry for my degree, I was more interested in meshing together point clouds on a larger scale. To coincinde with my mapping project I wanted to take the building height and topography of the area I am focusing on and generate a cad mesh from that. This was not as simple as originally percieved.