Coral Fabrication
3D Printing
Continuing the coral fabrication process from last week. The initial coral model was too complicated to print, therefore I made more models for 3D printing.
After consulting with the digital fabrication technician, the new models will still be challenging to print as they generally require a large amount of helpers which needs to be removed by hand after. So I decided to further simplify the model and make sure it is feasible to print.
The first print turned out broken. I analysed the problem with the technician and modified the models to do a reprint of the broken coral.
The second print failed too. Since I removed the bottom plate to save the printing time, it is cruicial to have a flat buttom for the corals. Not having a perfectly flat bottom caused one of the branches to fall during the printing and messed up the rest of the printing.
After more fixing on the models, the print was finally successful.
The corals were then painted with acrylic paint.
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