Layers Project: Original design made with 4 layers of 1/8 inch laser cut birchwood Lantern Project: Custom lantern made with 1/8 inch laser cut birch wood and frosted acrylic front face with RGB fairy lights inside. Altered Toy Project: Singing Charmander 3D printed with PLA designed with TinkerCAD (used Charmander model found online)
Author: Sameer
sameer: toy design update
I used a Charmander 3D model and added other models I found for sunglasses and a microphone in TinkerCad. Charmander model: https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-print-models/art/sculptures/charmander-pokemon Sunglasses: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/a367IcaEfeA-sunglasses Microphone: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/2tdzmuizh93-prop-microphone Then I loaded the model into MeshMixer and lowered the poly count. There were some errors with self intersection in the model which I found with Inspector in Analysis…
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sameer: final lantern project
I used the rounded box design from Boxes.py: https://www.festi.info/boxes.py/RoundedBox?language=en. Then I cut out my robot design on the front face which is frosted acrylic. I colored the small cut out pieces black with sharpie and used a piece of clear tape to secure them in place. Then I placed RGB fairy lights on the inside…
sameer: final layers project
After many Inkscape and Retina Engrave issues I decided to go back to my original design. I made an acrylic version, but I liked the wood better. The piece is about 4×4 inches and is 4 layers.
sameer: layer piece progress
I am going to add some more texturing to each layer with raster engraved lines, but I had some issues with Inkscape and Retina Engrave and so I wasn’t able to get my 2nd draft for class today. I added the lines with a fill pattern in Inkscape. When I load the design into Retina…
sameer: layers cuts
I changed my initial layers cut design. This draft has 5 layers and is pretty small. I plan to engrave circles or flowy lines onto each layers and make the whole thing bigger. Thoughts on using acrylic? Also did we figure out the best way to assemble acrylic layers?
sameer: layer design
For my layer design I took inspiration from Gabriel Schama and Jen Stark’s work. In the below pieces, both artists have a large silhouette cut as the top layer and then the layers get smaller and smaller going into the material. In my piece I also started with a main silhouette design and worked out…
sameer drawing 01
For my first drawing I drew a stylized version of the SoundCloud logo. Life just wouldn’t be as fun without music. Lately I have been discovering lots of different artists on SoundCloud and use it as my main music streaming platform.
sameer
Hi I’m Sameer Desai a freshman Computer Science major from Ashland, MA. I make audio-visual art with programming. I make beats in Ableton Live and I’m not that good at drawing so I keep things simple and minimalist. I play volleyball and spikeball. Interactive Audio-Visualizer Website: https://smeeboi.github.io/senior-project/final/exhibit03/index.html socials