CSE 325 Computer Science and Sculpture Prof George

CSE 325 Computer Science and Sculpture Prof. George Hart

Course Ideas • Introductory material • Interdisciplinary – Art, Computer Science, Math, Liberal Arts • For all majors • Prereq: Some programming, e. g. , CSE 110 • Learn by doing – Build using computer, paper, other materials – Develop mathematical thinking through design – Some programming in Mathematica • Make objects you will take to/from class • New Course — I want your constant feedback

Topics • Computers in design of sculpture – Freeform – Mathematical • • Computers in visualization Computers in fabrication Computers in “reverse engineering” Mathematical underpinnings Many hands-on activities! Some programming in Mathematica Sculptor case studies

Requirements • • • Attend all classes Participate in discussion Make stuff in class Online Readings – no textbook exists Projects related to class ideas – individual or group • Oral/web report on a sculptor or process • Written report with final project

Structured Laboratory Projects Wooden sculpture assembly Paper slide-togethers Zometool Paper "slice-forms" Paper origami Maya 3 D sculpture design Orderly tangles Pop-ups (paper engineering) Paper polyhedra — Great Stella Foam-core assembled layers Tensegrity structures 3 D quilts (e. g. , hyperbolic) Mathematica algorithmic design

Wood Sculpture “People”

Wood Sculpture Model 4 -foot wooden prototype

Zometool

Slide Togethers Sculpture of 30 floppy disks 30 paper squares with slits

Slice Forms Create volume from paper sheets Chair – web image

Origami Designs by Robert Lang

Commercial 3 D Design Software • • • Maya Blender Autocad Turbocad Rhinoceros 3 D Max Solidworks Form-Z Inventor Sketch. Up Geomagic Studio Materialize

Orderly Tangles Theo Geerinck “Tetragonal Sixlink” Rinus Roelofs “Linked Cubes”

Paper “Pop-Ups”

Paper Polyhedra Paper models designed using Great Stella software

Layered Construction Lego layers Andrew Lipson Stereolithography layers

Tensegrity Structures Coffee stirrers and thread Straws, paper clips, and rubber bands

Hyperbolic Quilts Quilt, 4 pentagons per vertex Helaman Ferguson “Hyperbolic soccer ball” David Henderson

Some Sculptor Case Studies • • Brent Collins Stewart Dickson Helaman Ferguson Bathsheba Grossman Akio Hizume Robert J. Lang Christian Lavigne Tom Longtin • • Charles Perry Michael Rees Ron Resch Rinus Roelofs Carlo Sequin Keizo Ushio Koss Verhoeff Derrick Woodham