Art Design
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Digital Artist Giuseppe Randazzo Creates Elaborate Arrays of 3D-Printed Stones
Stone Field 00 / exp00 – simple attractor exponential field. Digital rendering.
Italian designer Giuseppe Randazzo of Novastructura created a series of generative digital “sculptures” that depicted carefully organized pebbles and rocks on a flat plane. Titled Stone Fields, the works were inspired in part by similar land art pieces by English sculptor Richard Long. The textured works are a testament to Randazzo’s C++ programming skills used to create a custom application in 2009 that rendered 3D files based on a number of parameters.
Fast forward to 2014, and technology has finally caught up with Randazzo’s original vision. The designer recently used Shapeways to create physical prototypes of the Stone Fields project. He shares about the process:
Starting from 2009 project “Stone Fields”, some 3dmodels were produced from the original meshes. The conversion was rather difficult, the initial models weren’t created with 3dprinting in mind. The handling of millions of triangles and the check for errors required a complex process. Each model is 25cm x 25cm wide and was produced by Shapeways in polyamide (white strong & flexible). Subsequently they were painted with airbrush. […] The minute details of the original meshes were by far too tiny to be printed, however despite the small scale, these prototypes give an idea of the complexity of the gradients of artificial stones.
Watch the video above to see the sculptures up close, and you can see a few more photos over on Randazzo’s project site.
Stone Field 05 / three attractors field. Digital rendering.
Stone Field 04 / field based on vert dist from horizontal axis. Digital rendering.
StoneFields 02 / polar 2d Perlin field. 3D-printed sculpture.
Stone Field 00 / exp00 – simple attractor exponential field. 3D-printed sculpture.
Stone Field 07 /simple 1d linear polar field. 3D-printed sculpture.
Stone Field 07 /simple 1d linear polar field. 3D-printed sculpture, detail.
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