Final Poster

Laser cutting ideas

I intend to show a more conceptual idea for my laser cutting, representing my theme of waves through a cross section through a wave. The material I want to use is not available in the labs, it is a light plastic material which has a mirrored finish on one side and a blue matt colour on the other, the place I foudn to cut this is in Chipping Norton (not too far from me) and has this material available in 1.5mm which is perfect, it is tintended to look like a cross section of the image below.

My Model

My intial model had been successfully cut although the material I chose was definately the wrong choice! The notchs were too small as I did not allow for the size of the laser and since it went from a DWG format to PDF in order to it to be cut it unfortunately had several lines overlapped which meant extra cutting by the laser. I had no choice but to experiment with what was left of my shattered model, so I used the negative version in order to show the design intent. The images below is what I had created with what left of the inital model.

I guess this is why the call it Experimental Modelling!

Renders

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quick renders