This week’s selection is the Layers Decoded #04 by Bold Design and Batch.Works.
Bold Design is a French multidisciplinary design studio and 3D printing research lab, while Batch.Works is a UK-based firm developing circular manufacturing processes.
This is a highly unusual 3D print, as you can guess from looking at the image above. It seems that gravity was used to generate the filament loops while printing.
Normally this would be seen as a mistake, where an unsupported section would result in a drooping loop. However, that “mistake” has been turned into gold by these folks.
By repeating the droopy loop, they’ve managed to create a unique pattern that I haven’t seen previously done with FFF 3D printers.
It’s not described how this was accomplished, but it likely involves some custom GCODE to move the toolhead just off into space and execute an extrusion while moving. If that maneuver were repeated from a series of starting points along a surface, you’d have this pattern.
It’s likely quite fragile, so it would probably be best used in non-touchable displays.
This reminds me of a method developed ten years ago where single extrusions were made repeatedly to simulate hair.
In many ways we often think about FFF 3D printing in 2D layers, but that doesn’t have to be the case, as evidenced by this project.
Via LinkedIn, Bold Design and Batch.Works
