To prepare for my bachelor project I took a workshop which aimed to explore glitches caused by scanning and modeling software during the design process for 3D printing. Laying down the idea that products must be fixed and refined to meet the judging eye of the consumer, we instead discussed that most objects evolve from a digital format which is responsible for a variety of material imperfections along the way. Not to track them down for improvement, but to view them as influence for the manufacturing process, in this case the lost wax casting method using bronze.
Exploring possible glitches with this method, it came to mind that natural objects would produce the highes amount of variation when forced to undergo a digital manufacturing process. That is why I decided to work with an ananas, its detailed and irregular surfaces would be really good for examination. I used a quiet rudimentary scanning device which had a hard time capturing the rough surface of the fruit. The 3D file consisted only of floating surfaces which had to be extruded and connected to each other with the help of specific algorithms and 3D modeling software. The resulting object was then printed using ABS 3D printing filament and proceeded to casting with bronze.
