Project 1 Summary

The first project of this class was making a laser-cut product.

To do so, I had to design my item first, after a few times of research, using Rhino.

And after numerous times of editing, I laser-cut my file, on 1/8" thick plywood and got the final item.

The photo below is the final image of my product.

< Final >

Highlights!

 

< Core inspirations >

The first photo is how I got an idea of using unique shape. I copied those tiles' shape and played around and made a complex design out of it.

The second photo is from a traditional building in Korea and I thought the layered decoration of it is something I can apply on my design.

The third photo is a piece of an artist, who makes layered wood cut arts. I always thought the perks of using a laser-cut is getting a outcome including delicate lines or shapes, and I thought I can adopt this feature in my piece as well. 

< Design Process and some details >

< Cut Files >

< Rendered images from Rhino >

Since I am using plywood as my material, I adopted birch wood texture when rendering my Rhino file.

Rationale

It was a challenging project since the design that I chose was very complicated. Designing a holistic design in 2d and separating it into few layers were not easy. I had to double check my design few times and edited numerous times as well, so that I would get successful result. I am very satisfied with the result and I think I will be more prepared to do similar work in the future, in designing.