An exploration of skilled human gesture and design, Spring 2017.
Cake City by Lissa Biltz, Victoria Yong, and Robert Zacharias Due: 5/11/2017 Abstract This project aimed to provide a playful method of designing a city block on a piece of cake using playful user input and a frosting-based output generated by an ABB robot and a Grasshopper script. On a plain white surface, a user
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1. Hybrid Skill Workflow Diagram 2.Annotated Drawings Input: Transformation: Process: Left: Input, in which cardboard forms that represent buildings are arranged on a 2′ x 2′ table and whiteboard surface under a Kinect. Green spaces (green), roads (purple), and bodies of water (blue) are drawn in with markers. A boundary (cyan) for the
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Clay sculpture is typically a skill learned through practice. Our group took interest in the movements a clay sculptor makes as they sculpt. Is there a trend with the shape, position, or velocity of the tools? We began this exploration by interviewing Miranda Miller, a CMU freshman art student who specializes in clay sculpting work.
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