Improv Inflat – Lucian
My approach to creating these inflatables was different for each one I made. Some had themes that continued from one to the next as I made them. But overall it was an experiment to test the limits of the material and what can be done with it.
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As the first inflatable I created I wanted to test what would happen when joining two shapes together.
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The idea for the second came after see what two shapes look like attached from the outside.
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My third inflatable was mostly curiosity over how different joining methods create different surface structures.
My fourth construction was a random build using leftover elements from the previous assemblies.
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For my last inflatable I wanted to create a regular structure with curved edges in order to create a sharp cornered regular shape. As we had seen in class, when inflating a shape with straight edges, the inflatable tends to balloon outward and become more spherical. I wanted to create the opposite effect and retain the shape of the object as much as possible. I had originally wanted to curve the edges such that when inflated the shape ends up as a regular, even cube, but ended up cutting pointed corners instead due to lack of time.