CONTROLLED VARIATION

MATTHEW ISELY, HALEY PENCE, COURTNEY CORNELL

SHAI YESHAYAHU ARC 252

SIDE VIEW OF COMPLETED SETUP

SHOWING HOW THE DIFFERENT CASTS

LINE UP VERTICALLY

THE VARIOUS CASTS ACHIEVED USING VARIOUS METHODS AND MOLDS SET IN

SUNLIGHT TO SEE THE EFFECTS OF SHADOW ON THEM.

THE FINAL SETUP VIEWED

FROM AN ANGLE ABOVE AND

TO THE RIGHT FROM THE

ORIGINAL SYSTEMS

OPTION ONE WAS RULED OUT OF

CASTING DUE TO THE INHERENT

DIFFICULTIES OF CASTING A SYSTEM AS

COMPLEX, NON- UNIFORM, AND ODDLY

SHAPED AS THIS ONE IS. DESPITE THERE

BEING A PATTERN TO THE SYSTEM, IT

WAS DEEMED TO

OPTION TWO WAS RULED

OUT OF CASTING FOR

REASONS VERY SIMILAR TO

THE FIRST. UNLIKE OTHER

GROUPS WHO HAD VERY

UNIFORM AND SIMPLE

SYSTEMS, OUR GROUPS

WOUND UP WITH MORE

ODDBALL AND STRANGER

SYSTEMS THAT WOULD

HAVE PROVED INCREDIBLY

DIFFICULT TO CAST IN 3D.

OPTION THREE WAS THE SYSTEM WE EVENTUALLY WENT WITH. THE REASON

BEING THAT IT LOOKED AS THOUGH THE VARIABILITY WOULD BE EASIER TO CAST

THAN THE PREVIOUS SYSTEMS WE PRODUCED, AND THE SYSTEM WOULD BE FAR

EASIER TO STACK THAN THE PREVIOUS SYSTEMS. ALSO WE FOUND THAT THE

APERTURES WOULD BE MORE SUITED FOR CASTING RATHER THAN THE CHANGING

SHAPES OF OUR PREVIOUS TWO SYSTEMS.

THE ORIGINAL MODULAR

THE ORIGINAL MODULE SELECTED FOR

CONTINUATION INTO PROJECT 2. THE

BASIS OF THE SHAPE IS HEXAGONS

WITH FURTHER HEXAGONS INSCRIBED

WITHIN THE ORIGINAL TO CREATE A

SERIES OF UNDULATING SHAPES WITHIN

THE MODULE SETUP FOR PROJECT ONE SHOWING THE GROUPING OF MODULES

SETUP IN A HEXAGONAL GRID, WITH THE VARIATION BEING THE VARYING SHAPE

OF EACH INDIVIDUAL MODULE AND THE VARYING SIZES OF THE CENTER

HEXAGONAL APERTURES.

THE TWO ORIGINAL MOLDS ,

AND THE RESULTS OF

THOSE MOLDS. THE CNC

MOLD, BOTTOM RIGHT, MADE

RIGID HEXAGONS LOCATED

AT THE TOP LEFT OF THE

TRIANGLE. THE PEG MOLD

MADE GREAT VARIABILITY.

THE PEG MOLD IS AT THE

BOTTOM LEFT, WITH TWO

MODULARS PRODUCED IN

THE BOTTOM RIGHT

CORNER OF THE TRIANGLE.

THE MOLDS

A CLOSEUP OF THE CNC MOLD, SHOWING

WHERE WE POURED THE PLASTER AND

THE INTERIOR PIECE USE TO CREATE

THE APERTURE.

CLOSEUP OF THE PEG MOLD, WHERE WE

USED PEGS TO CREATE A CHANGING

SURFACE SHAPE OF OUR MODULE.

THE FINAL MOLD WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH 3D PRINTERS. A RHINO FILE ALLOWED US TO

CREATE A SORT OF RIGID VARIABILITY TO THE SHAPE, IN THAT THE SHAPES OF THE

HEXAGONS IS NOT UNIFORM, BUT EVERY MODULE WILL HAVE THE SAME NON-UNIFORM

LOOK. TO CREATE THE APERTURES WE CREATED INTERIOR PIECES TO FIT FLUSH TO THE

MOLD. THESE APERTURE PIECES WERE NOT STRAIGHT, AND TRAVELED THE DIRECTION OF

THE APERTURE THEY WERE CREATING, CREATING SOME STRANGE LOOKING APERTURES

IN THE FINAL PRODUCT.

THE CASTS

THREE CASTS BY THE FIRST TWO MOLDS. FAR LEFT WAS CAST USING

THE CNC MOLD, CREATING VERY RIGID AND UNIFORM LOOKING SHAPES.

THE CENTER AND RIGHT CAST WERE CREATED USING THE PEG MOLD.

HOWEVER THE ONE ON THE RIGHT WAS CREATED USING A PLASTIC BAG

IN BETWEEN THE PLASTER AND THE PLASTIC THAT FORMED THE MOLD.

IT HAS A MUCH MORE UNREFINED LOOK. WE DECIDED WE THOUGHT THE

MORE REFINED LOOK FIT OUR ORIGINAL MODULE MUCH BETTER AND

FURTHER DEVELOPED THAT IDEA INTO OUR 3D MOLD.

THIS IS THE CAST PRODUCED BY OUR 3D PRINTED MOLD. IT COMBINES

THE UNIFORM SHAPE OF THE CNC MOLD, YET ALLOWS FOR VARIABILITY

IN ITS SHAPE BY PROTRUDING VARIOUS PARTS OF THE INTERIOR

HEXAGONS OFF AT DIFFERENT ANGLES. THE INTERIOR APERTURES

PRODUCED, SHOOT OFF AT DIFFERENT ANGLES ADDING A NEW

VARIABILITY NOT ACHIEVED BEFORE IN PROJECT ONE.

CONTROLLED VARIATION

FINAL SETUP

THE FINAL SETUP FOR OUR MODULARS. THE DIFFERENT APERTURES CAN BE

SEEN. THE TOP TWO HAVE LARGE APERTURES SUBTRACTED FROM THE MODULE

THAT ANGLE OFF TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THE MODULE. THE TWO DIRECTLY

BELOW THOSE HAVE APERTURES THAT ANGLE OUTWARDS AT LESS STEEP OF AN

ANGLE CREATING A LESS DRAMATIC EFFECT. THE CENTER HEXAGON APERTURES

ARE STRAIGHT THROUGH WITH NO ANGLE.

FROM THIS ANGLE WE CAN SEE THE

SETUP OF ALL OF THE MODULES TO

CREATE A CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE

MODULES. WE ATTEMPTED TO MATCH

THE VARYING HEIGHTS AND ANGLES OF

EACH MODULE TO GIVE THE ENTIRE

SETUP A FLOWING CONTINUITY TO IT.

FROM THE SIDE, THE

ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE

CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE

MODULES CAN BE SEEN.