I’m currently attending a week-long conference on “Illustrating Mathematics” at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University, in Providence, RI. I was asked to give a workshop here on using the Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino, and thought my talk would make a good blog post. This is the first time I’ve written
Month: June 2016
Making Big Art with 3D Printing
As I’ve learned more about what people recognize as “fine art,” I’ve come to realize that there are inherent problems in using 3D printing for the direct production of art. I’m not talking about philosophical questions, like whether “real art” should have hand-built elements to it. In this post I’ll discuss more a more technical question: scale vs economics. In Mathematics,