MAT 238 Clay Fabrication

For this week's project, I used parametric design to make a fancy vase and printed it out.

Clay fabrication is different from the traditional 3D printing since it needs a lot of preparation. As a group, we prepared the clay and loaded the tube.

For my design, I modified the parametric cylinder with base. For each layer, I added a sin function to the circle to create an alternating star pattern. I also had a cos function of layer count to make the circumferences of layers alternate in a periodic way. On top of that, I rotated each layer. My code and design preview are shown in the images.

The base of my design was not well printed but once it moved to the wall everything started to smooth out.

A picture is worth a thousand words.