Award winning, interactive, Cloud9 designed, 3D printed work
Posted by: anarkik3d on: August 11, 2011
Award winning, interactive, Cloud9 designed, 3D printed work.
3D printing is hot. You need 3D digital data of the model befor it can be printed. Here is a great video in which Farah Bandookwala shows how haptic Cloud9 with its virtual touch has revolutionised the way she works with computers and 3D printing. Cloud9 is the 3D modelling software for creative people, designed by a designer at Anarkik3D for designers, applied artists and artists.
Award winning interactive Cloud9 designed, 3D printed work
Posted by: anarkik3d on: August 11, 2011
Here is a great video in which Farah Bandookwala shows how haptic Cloud9 with its virtual touch has revolutionised the way she works with computers and 3D printing.
The Art & Science of Touch from Siri Rodnes on Vimeo.
Be great if this video gets included for the Power of Making exhibition at the V&A Museum as the 2 artists in residence will have the use of haptic Cloud9 (kindly loaned by A1 Technologies) and, for the open days, the public might be able to use it too.
Farah’s latest interactive sculptures can be seen in the Jerwood Makers Open exhibition at the Jerwood Space in London until the 28th August 2011.
Cloud9: from wedding ring set, Ms Spikydo to Weemee monster …
Posted by: anarkik3d on: May 6, 2011
There is a new ’Resources’ section on the anarkikangels website with additional forms and objects that Cloud9 users can download to get into doing stuff more quickly. This got me into a roll and I admit that I have been a bit carried away creating things that range from sublime pleasure to crazy fun.
The first is not trivial as I have been working on designing my daughter’s nestled wedding and engagement rings (http://annmarieshillito.wordpress.com/). 
In between waiting for the prototypes to come, I started on some other design ideas, and then moved on to using a part for a figure who developed into Ms Spikydo. And I also created my own wicked weemee monster. This prompted me to look at Kidrobot and the MoshiMonsters online game for small and grown up kids and ended up adopting my own Diavlo. Be great if I could have introduced my own creature creation. In Spore it is possible to do that but the creator is prescriptive and the game seems complex and about power and destruction. I am into construction and creativity.
As CEO of Anarkik3D shouldn’t I be dealing with Company business instead? Marketing is a very important part of the business and our current markets for Cloud9 stretch from designers, Design and Engineering Companies who use it for ‘quick and dirty’ concept generation, prototyping and communications, from designer makers both prototyping and creating finished, directly saleable objects using 3D printing, through to kids creating jewellery, fantasy worlds, faces, spaceships and ghouls.
To work with Cloud9 in such focused way gives me an intimate insight into its functionality and usability issues – with this knowledge I am more likely to better understand the feedback from our users, and particularly the nuances that are difficult to put into words. This is all fed back into development – just wish this could proceed faster.
Tom Anderson, CEO of Novint and manufacturer of the Falcon haptic device we use with Cloud9, is closely involved with usage and users and I have always admired him for getting a good balance between the business side and understanding your customers.
Mcor/Anarkik3D project part 2
Posted by: anarkik3d on: January 24, 2011
Ann Marie's 3D printed bangle painted using acrylic paints
This bangle has been designed using Anarkik3D’s haptic Cloud9 sketch modelling software and 3D printing by Mcor using their Matrix printer. The designer, Ann Marie Shillito, is a strong advocate of 3D printing and particularly enjoys designing to use the printed object as the end product, adding value to it through the finishing process. This bangle has been finish using acrylic paint with touches of gold paint for sparkle. Earlier pieces were also gold leafed too.
As a designer jeweller she uses her expertise to design products and objects to test Cloud9 through all stages of its development, particularly as a package for use by professionals for concept modelling forvisualising both as a digital form and as a 3D printing model. The next stage of the project is to have designs printed in layers of coloured paper as this will illustrate particularly well the potential for designers, applied artists and artists of combining the material/build process offered by the Matrix with Cloud9′s special capabilies for creating organic free flowing forms. The colour layers of the build emphasise non uniform curves hence the intention to explore this effect by designing for printing in layers of coloured sheets.
AMS: digital bangle in Cloud9
AMS intends to capture the full process from design to finished object, using screen captures such as the one on the right, and photographs of the ‘peeling’ process (stripping away the waste paper) to clearly show the building process (in a interesting reverse order) and the integral supporting mechanism that the Matrix has. An understanding of the affordances and constraints of this method of 3D printing should enable concepts to be pushed further and thereby challenge oneself at the design stage to be more adventurous and explore this technology more knowledgably. Ann Marie’s work will be covered in this blog as designs are developed, the objects printed and then finished.
Tavs Jorgensen's Mcor 3D printed piece
This was the first stage, the pilot project as it were, and there were three designers who participated. Sandra Wilson’s work has been covered in an earlier blog. The 3rd person is Tavs Jorgensen and his 3D printed piece on the right shows an arched block with one surface pulled up into rows of peaks at differing heights. The most economical positioning for printing, that is horizontal, has left the tops of the peaks vulnerable and a number have come adrift. Knowing more about how this might be avoided will also inform the design process.
Mcor/Anarkik3D project cont.
Posted by: anarkik3d on: December 15, 2010
Three of us designed an object each for this first part of our project with Mcor. These pieces were 3D printed in plain white layers of paper and unfortunately not completed in time for the TCTLive 2010 trade exhibition last October. This pilot shows the potential for combining the special unique capabilities of Cloud9 as a modelling package for easy creation of organic forms and Mcor continue into the next stage where the objects will be printed in layers of coloured paper. Deirdre McCormack agrees that coloured layers will be very striking used with curvilinear forms thay can be created in Cloud9. So this is a call-out to 
Anarkikangels stakeholders to let me know their intention to participate and will definitely commit to creating a piece USING CLOUD9 for 3D printing on Mcor’s Martix printer. Please email me asap . I will send out the details early in the New Year.
Notes on the piece by Sandra Wilson. She is working on a project with colleagues in life sciences and medicine called Tempting Fate! that is exploring modern superstition about disease through contemporary jewellery. She has been exploring imagery of healthy blood cells through medical text books and looking down a microscope. She created the first simple and quite literal forms for the project using the Cloud9 haptic sketch/modelling package (slide: Cloud9 blood cell.jpg) as organic forms are very easy to create using the sphere and deform tools.
This first prototype (slides: Mcor_SW_005 and 021), 3D printed using Mcors Matrix Printer, is for use in the collaborative project and it will be informative, to gather responses to the object before creating more imaginative interpretations of blood cells. Longer term, the objects created from this project may provide a focus for positive visualisation as part of a healing process.
As Programme Director in Jewellery & Metal Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Sandra also has an interest in how our relationship with technology affects the design process and the relationship we have with objects, and in the potential for 3D object printers to contribute to undergraduate education.
Dr Sandra Wilson is Programme Director – Jewellery & Metal Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee Dundee.
Notes and pics of the other 2 pieces will be in the next blog.
Hello there, and welcome!
Posted by: anarkik3d on: August 25, 2010
As this a blog, we at Anarkik3D will use this space to comment on the progress of different Company events, issues and projects. The first is an exciting collaboration with Mcor (www.mcortechnologies.com/) to offer a inspiring opportunity to Cloud9 users.
Mcor are based in Ireland and manufacture a 3D printer. For this collaboration they will 3D print a limited collection of objects using their unique Matrix 3D printer which uses sheets of paper for the build. 4 artists, designers, applied artists have so far signed up, with space for a couple more. If you are interested and use Cloud9 get in touch fast as time is short! (info [at] anatkik3d [dot] co [dot] uk)
A criterion is that the main software used is Cloud9 especially as it is so good for creating organic forms. As this batch will be printed using layers of coloured paper, contours of organic free flowing forms will be enhanced and emphasized.
The collection will first be displayed on Mcor’s stand at the TCT Trade Exhibition in the Ricoh Centre in Coventry, from 19th to 21st October 2010, and later at other promotions.
The illustration above of a layered terrain 3D printed from coloured sheets of paper shows the stunning effect and potential of Mcor’s Matrix 3D printer. I will use this blog to update progress.
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