A mashup of my unicorn head and yzorg's gangsta

Check out our latest 3D model: an African sculpture made of wood.

The scan has been rotated, scaled to a height just under 100mm and given a flat bottom. It's slicing now, I'll update with photo's should the print go well.

This is a sculpture from my recent solo show, "Tomorrow Land"! You can read all about the meaning of the work here: rhgallery.com/site/exhibitions/tomorrowland/tomorrowland_pressrelease.pdf

This sculpture commemorates the end of the shuttle program. The shuttle silhouette is cut out of a cemetery. Pour one out for this retired work-horse!

It's art so it's not "for" anything other than to impress your friends with your well-developed cultural palette.

This is a sculpture from my recent solo show, "Tomorrow Land"! You can read all about the meaning of the work here: rhgallery.com/site/exhibitions/tomorrowland/tomorrowland_pressrelease.pdf

This is a variation on the first sculpture (also on Thingiverse). What's important is this sculpture features the silhouette of William Shatner cut out of a landscape.

It's art so it's not "for" anything other than to impress your friends with your well-developed cultural palette.

This is a sculpture from my recent solo show, "Tomorrow Land"! You can read all about the meaning of the work here: rhgallery.com/site/exhibitions/tomorrowland/tomorrowland_pressrelease.pdf

What's important is this sculpture features the silhouette of William Shatner cut out of a landscape.

It's art so it's not "for" anything other than to impress your friends with your well-developed cultural palette.

This template makes it easy to create George Hart's 72 pencil sculpture. georgehart.com/sculpture/pencils.html

Another small copy of a handmade terra cotta shoe with mouses in.
I shot 40 photos to generate this shoe.

Here is a little copy of a little hand made copy of the Sphinx. I shot 32 pictures to generate this Sphinx.

This is a 3D Perspective Sculpture that says good at one angle and bad at the other.

I just made a few changes to this awesome scan - making a flat bottom, resized, and repositioned it.

Would make an awesome chess piece...

This is actually a photoscan of a bust of a Russian poet Mayakovski. The original is located in central Moscow. It’s funny but the bust and the museum are embedded in a newly build former KGB buildings. The museum is actually located in KGB!

I just liked the sculpture which is quite brutal. I like Mayakovskiy as well.

Since Mayakovski committed a suicide in 1930 ( I could be mistaken with a date), I made auxiliary model with poor guy’s head blowing away. I am afraid tiny scull connectors may not be possible to replicate.

With the greater spread of high detail DIY 3d printers, here is a model to be printed with as thin layer height as possible to get high quality , high poly sculpture.

(actual pics are a 3d print in Stainless steel)

Enjoy.

This is a wooden version of George W. Hart's Frabjous sculpture. Wooden tabs were added to make the joints stronger.

I've been creating a sculpture, the Anywhere Organ anywhereorgan.tumblr.com , for the past year or so. It's gone through many iterations, modifications, revisions, and changes over time but is finally coming together into a predictable, robust sculpture.

I designed these parts as a system to take salvaged organ pipes and create them into a huge extended instrument, networked together and controlled by MIDI. Organ enthusiasts have been saving dismantled pipe organs from the dumpster for years, but many don't have the time or resources to use all the parts they acquire. I've found they've been very eager to have me take random or incomplete sets off their hands. As my own collection grows I'm hoping to add to the Anywhere Organ, eventually having the mobile equivalent of a cathedral organ I can take anywhere from an underground cave, to an abandoned theater, to a fire escape and play.

I've been doing a Kickstarter trying to raise funds for the next bigger, better version. Please give it a look, tell your friends, and donate. kck.st/anywhereorgan

All of the DXF's are designed to be cut centerline on an industrial laser out of 3/4" nom. (.719") indoor plywood.

This document was created as a way to release what I've learned and built through designing the Anywhere Organ. It is not intended to be a tutorial. It is intended to help folks get on their way to building their own organs, laser cut instruments, and huge awesome things. At some point I may tutorialize, but the path to the design I now have has been so long and winding it is difficult to put down concisely into a Thing.

A bit of background on this piece: the model itself is my first ever attempt at 3d printing. The assembly of the original was done by hand, but that is the only step that resembled traditional not-printing. I wrote a rudementry model slicing tool in college one afternoon; and then realized that I could put that to work in a sculpture class I was taking at the time. The assignment was basically "here's two big sheets of polystyrene; go nuts." I finished the project in a few days, where two weeks were alloted for the assignment.

For your enjoyment, I've included a picture of my two original prints.

I'm going to decline to release my code right now, as "rudementry" is an overstatement on the quality of the code and my poor understanding of best practice at the time.

Yeah, I know, everyone uses "but my code is ugly" as an excuse, but believe me, using a shell script to generate a c++ header from an .obj file (for obscure performance reasons, and didn't know of a good library to use for what I wanted, and didn't want to spend the rest of the afternoon researching one) and re-adapting a program you wrote to demonstrate shader programs (for an independant study) to facilitate the slicing stuff... oh and don't forget, the gui for operating the slicer (adapted from the demo program) is a python program. More embarassing than the run-on sentance I just wrote. Trust me, the code is fugly. Time constraints and using what I knew at the time won over researching best practice.

I do have plans to remake the slicing tool now that I'm older and wiser, since it enabled something that resembles 3d printing to persons with no budget. It also enables working in pretty much any scale you like without concern for overhangs. Such a remake I would opensource or make public domain for sure.



Oh, almost forgot; this piece is an abstraction of an aligator vertebra.

"Frabjous" is a scupture originally created by Georg Hart. It's made of 30 identical S-shaped pieces.

Original by George W. Hart
georgehart.com/sculpture/frabjous.html
Remade by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
evilmadscientist.com/article.php/frabjous

There are already another two here on thingiverse:
thingiverse.com/thing:724 by vrogy
thingiverse.com/thing:5449 by virginia

My version is a bit different. It's designed to be cut from wood and has self-interlocking pieces. No glue required!

More photos at my blog post:
blog.gagalabs.com/laser-cut-frabjous

This model started life as a bronze statue in my parents' house. I took photos and uploaded them using the Photofly software at labs.autodesk.com/utilities/photo_scene_editor/ to create an .OBJ file. I then closed up any holes using NetFabb Studio's repair function and then cropped and resized the model in Blender to make a printable bust.
Unbelievable technology and all free. Huge thanks to all the developers.

The "lightbulb" is a 5-sided spiral that forms the general shape of a lightbulb. I made this a few years ago as a test piece and I've updated it just for you.

I've included two sizes:

Full size: about 4.8 inches tall
Half size: about 2.4 inches tall (...yep, that's half...check!)

I've also included each STL file in two resolutions.

Utopian abstract sculpture building kit for your Utopian Lego world. Based on Brancusi's 1938 Coloana infinitulu in Tirgu Jiu, Romania.

I am a big fan of the game Dead Space and Dead Space 2. I loved the design of the alien artifact known as the Marker. So I decided I wanted to make my own interpretation of the Marker based on hexagons, my favorite 2D shape. The Marker from Dead Space is a pair of extruded squares, my design is a trio of extruded hexagons.

This is a sculpture, it has no function. I modeled it in Rhinoceros. It's also available from the Downloads (http://bathsheba.com/downloads) section of my site, bathsheba.com.

If you make one, I'd love to see it!

Thanks!

OK, I didn't do much of the work for this one! I was browsing various other 3D download sites, thinking how bad most of the free models are for 3D printing and found this :
archibase.net/download/27844.html
I thought it could be printable.
So, downloaded it & imported the .3ds file into Google Sketchup.
Realised that it wasn't perfect, so added a base and a support for the chin. I also decided to add a void in the middle to hopefully use a bit less plastic but still have something to "fill" for strength.
The void has a flat top. My printer did a reasonable job of printing the flat with no support. First layer a bit sketchy, second was fine.
I'm guessing there would be better ways to do the chin support as well but this was a quick job!

Ok smarty, go to a party, yo Bust A Buser

This OpenSCAD script creates two parts - a stand with a customizable name text in 8bit font thingiverse.com/thing:2054 and slices up a head scan and adds a pin connector slot thingiverse.com/thing:10288 This way you can make the head super big to get more detail to show as well as avoid the overhang under the bust from causing problems.

As an added bonus, my bust is now modular so you can use pin connectors to attach it to other things. You know you want to.

indymogul.com/

twitter.com/ErikBeck

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Part of a ongoing project scanning the heads of bloggers, artists, DIYers, makers, musicians, hackers and anybody else we think is notable.

Made with a Polhemus 3d scanner at MakerBot.

kimboekbinder.com
theimpossiblegirl.com

twitter.com/kimboekbinder

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Part of a ongoing project scanning the heads of bloggers, artists, DIYers, makers, musicians, hackers and anybody else we think is notable.

Made with a Polhemus 3d scanner at MakerBot.

youtube.com/watch?v=DX27Vg_5qXQ

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Part of a ongoing project scanning the heads of bloggers, artists, DIYers, makers, musicians, hackers and anybody else we think is notable.

Made with a Polhemus 3d scanner at MakerBot.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Crabapple

drsketchy.com/

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Part of a ongoing project scanning the heads of bloggers, artists, DIYers, makers, musicians, hackers and anybody else we think is notable.

Made with a Polhemus 3d scanner at MakerBot.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Deaner

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Part of a ongoing project scanning the heads of bloggers, artists, DIYers, makers, musicians, hackers and anybody else we think is notable.

Made with a Polhemus 3d scanner at MakerBot.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

craphound.com/

boingboing.net/

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Part of a ongoing project scanning the heads of bloggers, artists, DIYers, makers, musicians, hackers and anybody else we think is notable.

Made with a Polhemus 3d scanner at MakerBot.