Spring 2022
This week we refined our cloud shape by fixing some wrinkles. We also sewed our eyeball again. Because last time we traced its patterns, some pieces were not at the same size. The following pictures are from our rehearsal on Friday.
We plan to add some LED lights inside the eyeball this week and finish up all the work.
Yesterday + sunday we test inflated the big mushroom, big flower, dinosaur, and butterfly. we also have two mini flowers with stems, five flowers, a leaf, and a bug sewn, and the pieces for the second mushroom cut. we decided the final layout and amount of dyeing we need to do. next steps are:
Last week: completed dyeing and patterning, cut most nylon pieces
This week: completed sewing of the cloud sans buttons (we will decide post test inflation where they will be located as baffles) and attached air inlet though we have made the air inlet that will attach to it. We will add the hole retroactively. Sewed all but the pupil onto the eyeball, which we will also add the air inlet later.
Over the weekend, we finished cutting off our pattern for the leaves and assembling them. We also dyed two inner wall leaves with green and pink gradient. Our next step is to dye the outer layers green, make the teeth and the stems and assemble everything together.
We made several smaller mockups of the Venus flytrap head. We came up with a pattern with baffling that we are satisfied with, and we plan to scale up the mock-up into our final size. We plan to dye the fabric after we cut out the patterns and before assembling, and by next Monday we plan to finish the head of the flytrap.
We started planning out the space and scrapped the cage idea.
We started to put together what our elements look like and split up some of the work. We talked about what we wanted some of the elements to look like (more 2d or 3d appearances). We also figured out dimensions for some of the individual objects. Currently, some of the patterns for the dinosaur, butterfly, and mushroom have been cut out.
Additionally, we started deciding some of the colors that we are going to dye the individual elements.
We have finished our Rhino file and will begin cutting out the ripstop this afternoon. We plan to have all the cutouts done today and distribute sewing work.
After getting some help over the weekend from Sean, we have finished our rhino file for our ribcage design.
Over the course of the next few days we will start cutting and sewing the design – we are hoping to have at least one arch of the ribs done by Wednesday.
For Monday, we determined how we would pattern and construct our project in order to model it and slice it in Rhino. We also finished our full model in Rhino and have finished squishing/unrolling almost all of our pieces.
We also finished the timeline and major/minor goals outline for our project, as included below:
In class Monday, we decided that we will try acid dye for the iris of our eye, since we were really taken with the patterns we could create by gathering/scrunching the fabric.
For today, we have finished our rough outline. We hope to make a small model soon to work out the stability of our project, we have not decided what we will make it out of, but we want to figure out what shapes we will need to create to make our piece.
For us specifically, our outline is very much a suggestion, as Asad and Georgia are part of SCC and have a busy week this week. But any slack we have in our plan we will pick up afterward. Our main goal is to have what we need to get done, done before the dates when we can go to WQEB and test our inflatable in the space there.
We have figured out the sizes that we want the inflatable to be, including the sizing and space between the ribs. We have also decided to use all white rib stock because we want to see the effect of color from the inside will travel through the white pieces and give a dream-like look both inside and out.
