Digital Bodies

MAGDIEL LOPEZ

Mix of digital art, photography, collage and graphics.

I was inspired by the work of Magdiel Lopez for this first exercise of digitizing a body.

His work of cutting, dislocation of the axes and game of colors applied to his portraits makes 3D modeling interesting and puts into practice the new techniques learned these days.

• Body from MakeHuman. (selecting just the head, with different measurement : long neck, large forehead)
• Rhino : I kept the head, separate in two pieces, make a hole in the forehead, make a box in between.
• Slicer : split the head into slices to be able to laser cut and assemble it.
• Laser cut : glue the parts together a nd create a 3D volume.

Create open surface. Solid / Box / place the first point directly on the object creating a box.

To delete the part :

Solid / difference → select the object to cut / right clic. select the second object / right clic.

Solid / Sphere place it on the part to delete.

[Boolean] difference select the object to cut, then the cutter.

Import the file from rhino to slicer.

custom and choose mm.

choose the thickness in base of the number of slices.

ISSUE :

transferring the rhino file to slicer closes all surfaces.

on slicer, it is possible to empty the inside of an object [Hollow] but the part that I wanted to open remain closed.

modification of the pattern of the slices on Illustrator but the dimension is too large and makes the work long.

With a better knowledge of rhino software this problem will be solved.

measure of the cardboard 3mm thickness :

• power 70
• speed : 150
• corners : 25

NB : Couldn't find an available piece of plexiglas.

–> the head disappear in the lab… impossible to find it anymore so no picture could have been done because of this incident. My apologies.

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