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I'm writing this post as I wait for my 3-axis golem to complete my drawing. It has been a process ... I tested on paper with ballpoint pens and felt confident enough to move to cardboard with my oil paint markers. Of course they're only similar in theory, they seem to have nothing in common in practice ... So that was a whole recalibration of z distance etc. They needed much more of a pressure downwards and also a bigger lift. I finally did find a good pressure, and speed, that allowed the ink flow to be continuous and keep up with the drawing. [you'll just have to take my word that I did ballpoint drawings, I only did a timelapse of that process and the ballpoint marks are much to difficult to see.] Update: The paint markers were so satisfying. I want to do more! Luckily, there was no one needing the CNC after my appointment slot so I just kept going and going and going. Adding more layers. That was the benefit of my image generator, with just...

Good Vibrations earrings and keychains So, without really meaning to I got a head start on my mass produced object. I let myself be distracted and went where my motivations took me and I'm actually so happy with how these turned out. These are based on the infamous ███████ █████████ massager  (name redacted for lawsuit protection because these will probably sell by the millions) and I traced the silhouette in Adobe Illustrator which I then imported into Rhino. After a few Rhino tests I ended up make the entire thing in Grasshopper, including all the separate parts. The Grasshopper file as well as the object's design went through many iterations until I was happy with what I got. There is a small hole in the base which a steel eye hook screws into and then the whole piece is hooked onto a sterling silver base fish hook earing. They are so easy to print and I designed them to print so that with an easy colour change in Prusa...

  I guess you could call this a sketch. After discussing with Bryan how I could push these candles holders to a hyper unique and bespoke object, I settled on using people's birthdays and ages. Bryan pointed out though that it wasn't clear how the concept of dates/birthdays existed in the form of the object so we brainstormed ideas of how to make the object almost "readable".  This prototype using dates to build it's final form. In the one above, it is my age. 36 years and 10 months. The larger rings are decades, 3 = 30 and the remainder are years, 6. The vertical lines are the months. Here's a video of the object interpolating through a range of dates.

  Well, I got it working! I did it at home on my own Prusa Mini so I had to do everything from scratch but it's great that I can now do this at home. I'm very excited for the large scale drawings. I also optimized and commented my Grasshopper definition

I knew for a drawing I wanted to do something very precise. Something a human would have trouble doing by hand. I often think perfectly parallel lines.

I'm really excited about this candle holder project that I have been working on and I'm excited about the idea of moving it beyond a proof-of-concept into a real physical object. What's more bespoke than an infinitely unique object, that no two will ever be the same? What's more design than having infinitely bespoke objects all fit together cohesively? A few things that I still need to address in Grasshopper: The main object is a loft of two curves (polygons) but I want to build this out further to have more curves involved, creating more visual complexity to the silhouette/profile of the object. Add a option for candle light or candle stick, this should be fairly straight forward. It's currently a very high demand definition, I'm curious to learn if there are optimizations I can include. As for the actual physical existence of these candle holders, I have a desire to "disguise" th...