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Shape Illusion

2017

Computational Design and Digital Fabrication Short Course

PortoFabLab, Porto Seguro Cultural Centre

In collab with Tiago Pessoa

The idea was to create a structure that would generate the illusion of a three-dimensional volume through the juxtaposition of two-dimensional blades. It is a re-reading of the work "Where are you" (2008), by South African artist Jonty Hurwitz, who is also an engineer and typically works with visual distortions in his art. The process entails volumetric scanning of the body, 3D digital modelling, preparing the file for laser cutting, positioning the parts, and the final assembly of the structure, which forms the illusion of the original volume from the blades.

Tools:

3D scanning; Rhinoceros+Grasshopper parametric modelling; laser cutting

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