Jul.29, 2013
Inspired by Gil Bruvel's metal sculptures, 3D artist Leon Nicholls replicated the wrought iron effect in Blender and designed a face that is made up of different colored layers. Each of the 61 cylindrical wired objects were individually placed to form the shape of a womans face, neck and shoulders.
The model was designed to be printed in color sandstone which allows him to add various color schemes.
Bruvel's another try was to make half of the face consist of vertical cylinders, see the image below. "I took the original face mesh and used the Blender knife tool to cut vertical edge paths out of the shape. Each path was converted to a curve and solidified to a cylinder. The curve was then converted to a mesh and smoothed with a subsurf modifier."
Read how Bruvel designs these models on his blog here. You can get one for yourself at Shapeways.
Posted in 3D Printing Technology
Maybe you also like:
- 3D printed luxury homes for hermit crabs
- Ford's 3D-printed shift Knob teaches how to drive a manual
- Disney develops richly expressive 3D printed eyes for robots
- This $200 3D printed bot can crack your phone's PIN in 20 hours
- World's First 3D Printed Ink Cartridges
- And Vinyly turns your ashes into a playable record
- 3D replicas of Van Gogh masterpieces
- Always losing your keys? Belgian insurance firm helps you with 3D scanning
- Prosthetics become musical instruments
- Vets are using 3D printing to help pets
- 3D printed Sonic-Ear makes your iPad sound louder
- Accord: 3D printed personalized earbuds
- Bone inspired 3D printed pumps by London designer Chaemin Hong
- Comic-Con 3D Printing Experience to feature Predator Alien holding fan's severed head