Saturday, March 1, 2014

Unfortunately last week I realized that I didn't account for the thickness of the chipboard that I was going to use when laser cutting each of the layers, and I had to restart the whole process to make it accurate. This process of restarting encouraged me to rethink my design of the waffle for the cube, though. I decided to explore the difference in the design of the cube if the contours were taken horizontally and vertically, versus at perpendicular diagonals. Although I am more intrigued by the design on the right, with the diagonals, I see problems that would arise while building the cube. For example, the extrusion is not from the diagonal surface, but instead to the CPlane. In addition, there are pieces that would be very difficult to connect, because of their shapes. Nonetheless, I am going to choose the cube on the left, with the horizontal and vertical contours, and experiment with the spacing between layers.

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