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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Intro Our team focused on a particular style of Chinese martial arts called baguazhang. This technique utilizes a double-handled curved sword and dynamic movements that engage the whole body in smooth coiling and rotation. The user steps in a circular motion to build up momentum to fluidly move around an opponent and strike quickly with
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