Metalphysic Sculpture Collaboration

Continued from this link, showing how the process started.

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:

Instagram

Instagram

Detail in 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

Photo shoot with final sculpture

Check this blog entry for all the previous work on the sculpture up to this point.

Previous history of the digital collaboration

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!

Time Laspe --

CNC milling the Styrofoam sculpture

at Metalphysic in Tucson

obj wrl

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:

Hypervsn Hologram (only $600)

Homemade hologram on the cheap,

using your smartphone

UPDATE (Oct 20, 2017):

We created a VR scene with a lot of 3D files, and uploaded it to Sketchfab.

3D VR environment

viewed in 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.

Virtual Sculpture Garden by krrrl on Sketchfab

Embeded 

(but it looks better going directly to the SketchFab site)

Gustavo viewing our VR scene

from Sketchfab

in the Nightly browser

with Oculus goggles

Thanks you very much Louie and Gustavo from Fab Lab El Paso, who created our VR scene (1 2 3 4)!

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 

3) 3D virtual sculpture garden - in Tiltbrush  (Sansar?) (High Fidelity?)

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

6) Hologram   (HoloLens, Magic Leap?)

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

5) Shapelab

6) Gravity Sketch

7) 3D scanning -- Structure,  Eora 3D, Bevel

VR Junkies -- in Coronado Center in Albuquerque will rent VR equipment


UPDATE:  I added a page proposing some 21st Century enhancements of this sculpture