Introduction: Footprints

Plasticine is a moldable material that never hardens. It does not require much personnel to distort information technology.

We saw voltage therein material to be subjected to processes of printing and repeating in the machines within CCA Digital Craft Lab.

We study patterns and behaviors of the mass by going through different codes and artifacts.

Step 1: Code and Flatten out

We fix a more Oregon less flat come up of plasticine interior a compose.

At the same time, we created a G Code which would prescribe to the machine to draw 2000 random points crosswise the board.

Such theatre of points would be denser on one sidelong of the board than on the other.

Gradually the force field would lose density.

Step 2: Start

The machine is calibrated and a screwdriver is placed on the tip.

We started the G Code and started to score the points, this time crosses, on the control panel.

Footstep 3: First Result

We got what we hot.

In add-on, things happened that we had not considered, the size of the thwart corresponds to the irregular relief level of the plasticine.

Step 4: Interacting Points

Perceptive

what happened to the first experiment, we decided that the points should interact with to each one other.

We print in 3D a slice that bequeath be affined to the machine and extend the grade-constructed of the target, so that it touches the nearest points.

Maltreat 5: Second Result

The result of the second looping is an unpredictable assuagement.

There is more chaos across the board.

One can tell the machine's route through the Footprints.

The motorcar is indicated to always go to the nearest point, the result is a random path equally the field of points is.
The last footprints are drawn perfectly terminated the remainder, which are unredeemed in the accumulation of stairs and interactions.

Step 6: Kuka

Now we are moving to a new-sprung automobile, instead of exploitation 3 axes machine we will now use the 6-bloc KUKA automaton arm. This will grant us to puff our tool and make over lines instead of points.
The 3D printed tool that we place on the Kuka allows us to change the tips and adjust the height and angle in a simple way.

Step 7: Lines

The board is the assonant, a field of lines denser on one root of the board than the early. The lines shorten in the to a lesser extent dense area.

The tool breaks down halfway. However, we can keep from the point where we stayed. Many an felicitous accidents in the topography are cowl-shaped. In unmatched photo, you can see how the little excess gradually increase volume.

Step 8: Rotate

For this last iteration, we will rotate the tool 45 degrees every time de Kuka draws a line. So

The dragging become more intense and the drawing is a chaos. Amazing typography can make up comprehended when you are close to the plug-in. All put on of job interacts different with one and other, creating surprising topographies.

Footfall 9: Third Result

Can equal appreciated that a small worm in our book of instructions completely change the doings of the mass.

This unpredictable behavior is contratrio to the rigid code followed by the machine.

These works speak of chaos and order, the natural and the artificial, behavior and rules.

Step 10: Credits

CCA Digital Craft Research lab

Clayton Muhleman

Kow Kao

Javier Moctezuma

Mandy Yumeng Wang

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