I went to Metalphysic in Tucson today to check up on my sculpture collaboration. They CNC carved a single piece of Styrofoam from a digital file. The piece is over 3 feet tall.
Painted sculpture -- on November Ed Muren III uploaded pictures of the sculpture he painted on Instagram:
Ed Muren III (l)
painted the sculpture,
next to Daniel Hornung (r),
who created the digital sculpture in Zbrush,
loosely based on one of my drawings
Check this blog entry for all the previous work on the sculpture up to this point.
The Styrofoam was coated with Epsilon epoxy, which now needs to be sanded and painted.
Different view of sculpture
in the studio
13 axis mill
at Metalphysic
was used to CNC carve the sculpture out of Styrofoam
in one piece!
Digital Sculpting in 3D
A few days later, I tried out the 3D sculpture program -- Oculus Medium -- at Arizona Gamer's Lounge in Mesa (just a few doors down from HeatSync Hackerspace). I drew in 3D too, with Oculus Quill.
I managed to save my bad 3D creation as an OBJ file (4 megs) and open it up in an Online 3D Viewer --
My first bad Oculus Medium sculpture,
created in Mesa, AZ,
in an online 3D viewer
However, I'd rather display my bad sculpture as a hologram:
UPDATE (Oct 20, 2017):
We created a VR scene with a lot of 3D files, and uploaded it to Sketchfab.
We created a VR scene with a lot of 3D files, and uploaded it to Sketchfab.
The 3D scene was created in the latest version of Unity. It also can be viewed in VR from Sketchfab with Oculus goggles using the Nightly browser (in Windows) by Firefox. Apparently one can view the VR in Sketchfab with Google cardboard.
Embeded
Gustavo viewing our VR scene
from Sketchfab
in the Nightly browser
with Oculus goggles
We created a similiar scene in Google Tiltbrush, but it would not export the 3D OBJ files we imported into the scene (we believe they are stored on the local drive, and therefore not exportable).
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I've been playing with this 3D digital for a while.
I'd like to do everything I can with a 3D digital file:
1) Physical sculpture -- 3D print, CNC milled, laser cut and assembled
2) Online sculpture garden -- like in Open Sim
4) Augmented reality -- placing my sculpture in a real sculpture garden, such as that in front of the Albuquerque Museum, or in front of Meow Wolf
5) Internet of Things -- viewer controlled sculpture with their iPhone
7) Movies -- from YouTube to Hollywood
Creating in VR
1) Oculus Medium -- sculpting
2) Oculus Quill -- 3D drawing
3) Massless -- VR drawing pen, not on the market yet
4) Autodesk
VR Junkies -- in Coronado Center in Albuquerque will rent VR equipment
UPDATE: I added a page proposing some 21st Century enhancements of this sculpture
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