Radiolaria bracelet and ring prototypes
Jesse has been working on creating some 3 dimensional radiolaria pieces that we will be premiering at ICFF this year. We had some prototypes printed by Shapeways to test out material strength / sizing / feasibility. Not sure what the eventual designs will look like but here are some first attempts. The material is nylon and is printed using SLS (selective laser sintering).
![radiolaria 3D test prints](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3464/3363451612_09d8ed93bd.jpg)
Jesse wrote the software in processing as a kind of 3d implementation of our radiolaria applet on a toroidal shape. His program also builds the meshes, although we did the smoothing of them in Maya. We have some dye on order to experiment with coloring them and I would like to try electroforming them in silver.
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Megan
Wow gorgeous! I would really love to see them in silver, maybe also that kind of coloured titanium you get? Very nice indeed.
jim
not sure how i ended up here, but this stuff is cool!
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