SCAD scholarship awarded to Rhino user

Manuela Palacio, a student at Columbus School in Medellín, Columbia, has won a $3000 scholarship to attend Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia. This worldwide challenge was to create a residence hall room for college. Manuela used Rhino to create and illustrate her ideas, including the furniture and decor. Manuela has been using Rhino for about two years.

Stressed chair

Dauphin Human Design Group take pride in the chairs they design. They put a lot of effort in testing and development. Each design is put through stringent performance tests. If the chair fails, the chair is redesigned.

Now Dauphin uses Scan&Solve (SnS), a plug-in for Rhino, almost daily to do stress tests on Rhino models and solve any design problems with the chair components. Manufacturing discusses the design options with Engineering, eliminating the step of shipping samples between offices and waiting weeks for a fail/nofail report.

The Eddy chair started as a fragile frame, breaking in a "tip back failure'. Welding, back bars, clips, and steel specifications were all analysed before the prototype was built. With careful redesign, the chair ended up with a battle tank frame, but with the original aesthetics.

Ian Boyd, of Dauphin Human Design Group, raves about the changes,  "Since we started using SnS, not a single component analysed has been returned with structural failure. Not one. If ever I came across an application that earns its keep, this is it."

Details in the Scan&Solve forum ...

Evolving Hybride Male sculptures

Catharina van de Ven, a sculptor from the Netherlands, likes to explore different production methods for her work.  In her current work, she wanted to achieve symmetry and smoothness "like a car" for her Hybride Male series.

Catharina first made a clay sculpture. Through the Internet, she contacted Dot San in Scotland, who built a Rhino model from the clay sculpture.

Next, a small white 18 cm model was printed at Shapeways in Holland. The design was modified and the small black 8 cm model was printed. This design was approved and the big model was printed and sprayed metallic black. A silicon mold was made from the big model and a limited edition bronze model was cast and finished in Belgium. The bronze model is now being shown at exhibitions.

More on Hybride Male and other Catharina van de Ven sculptures ...

beSIEged, an exhibit of conceptual art by Jan Kokol

beSIEged
an exhibit of conceptual art by Jan Kokol, MIT 2010, Harvard GSD 2011
www.jankokol.com
July 1-October 1, 2011

Jan Kokol is a long time Rhino user doing Architecture, Painting and Conceptual Art and Design Robotics. Don't miss his exhibit if you are in MA.

Watch also these videos:

•  robot painting -  robot programmed in Rhino and ABB Robotstudio
• [ seaswarm ] - MIT Senseablecity lab - modeled in Rhino
• [ kinect ], 3d point cloud from Processing to Rhino