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In order to create the scales, we were focused more on the visual advantages offered to the Siren rather than the structural ones.

For this reason we printd a premade set of scales that I found on thingiverse. The intention of this being to display the colour changing mechanism rather than the structure of the scales.

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Unfortunately our group was not chosen by an art student. However having spoken to the art students, I asked each of them if it would be possible to reach out and exchange emails while we spoke.

Hence I was able to reach out to  Poppy and gather more information about the photosensitive pigment she mentioned.

Poppy was incredibly friendly and we were able to purchase the pigment using a link she provided to us.

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We were interested in the work of three specific art students and how it related to us. I created a list of those students and how we felt we may benefit from their input :

1. Poppy Braddy
We had an interest in the pigment she mentioned during her talk that reacts to light and how we could possibly make use of that to model colour-changing scales on our Siren.

2. Roberta Schreyer
We also felt as though Roberta's work and interest in structural colour could be useful to our project. Specifically her work surrounding the colour "Morpho Blue", that is created using structure instead of dye.

We briefly considered our Siren having pigmentation similar to that of butterfly wings

3. Lexie Li
Lexie's projects appeared to have the strongest obvious links to anatomy and because of that we thought it may be useful to consult with her.

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Several RCA Students gave talks:

Henrietta Dent - Yarn architectural construction techniques

Xin Zhou - Electronic textiles and functionality

Matrika Bhandari - The Indian way of sustainable thinking

Roberta Schreyer - Healing the human - nature relationship

Lexie Li - Bio-pantry:  Edible Packaging for food

Vicki Zhiwei Hong - 3D modelling fabric and fabric that responds to movement

Lissy Hatfield - How can we use knitting as a built environment

Poppy Braddy - Woven textile design

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Minimal Modern Urban Style Business Cards (9)

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Shown here are the initial CAd models and sjketches created by Nur and Dafne

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I was quite dissatisfied with this print. The quality of the print is questionable and the teeth do not fit together how I intended if at all.

We intentionally added space between the teeth to allow for sound propagation. However, this combined with the lack of coordination between the two jaws makes the print look haphazard. It is also unclear which jaw is the top and which is the bottom

The teeth are also not very distinct, there are simply sharper versions of human teeth. This matches with the siren teeth we previously used as inspiration but falls flat in terms of a striking visual.

The aim is to address these criticisms in the next version of the print.

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Shown below is the process for our initial design for the jaws/teeth of the Siren

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Pink Creative Cat Skull Illustration Business Card (2.5 × 0.5 in) (1)

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By using mesh mixer to turn the mesh and the teeth into one solid I was able to create a semi-realistic version of the top jaw.

I then repeated the process for the bottom jaw

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Using print for intended purpose as a keychain

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The mesh failed to load in TinkerCAD, which I felt was the best option for quickly modifying the teeth.

However I found that I was able to load the solid version of the gums into TinkerCAD.

I did consider adding the teeth into this solid, however the seam between the gums and the teeth looked odd due to the flat and artificial looking surface on the top of the gums.

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Placing teeth in teeth in test positions

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Placing teeth in teeth in test positions

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Using the failed mesh, I created a simplified shape of similar dimensions, to place the altered teeth into

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Used failed mesh to create outline to place teeth into

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Used failed mesh to create outline to place teeth into

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Mesh failed to load into TinkerCAD properly

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Mesh failed to load into TinkerCAD properly

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As TinkerCAD only works with meshes that are below 300,000 triangles. Hence when the mesh loaded in corrupted I at first assumed this was the reason.

However by using Fusion360 I saw that the mesh has 276,521 triangles.

Any attempt to load the gum shell into TinkerCAD led to a grainy, incomplete mesh.

This is most likely because the mesh had somehow become corrupted.  However I still did make use of this corrupted mesh

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As our project is based off of a fantasy creature it was very difficult to find realistic anatomy to aspire to.

We found Siren teeth for sale on an etsy shop that were based on a television show SIRENS.

We used this image as inspiration for our first model of teeth.

I attempted to imitate the shape of the teeth by altering the original teeth file in tinkerCAD

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The first thing I did to make use of the existing CAD model of human teeth was to separate the gums from the teeth

I did this as recreating the organic texture of gums within CAD proved quite difficult.

I created the corresponding mesh in mesh mixer, by selecting the portion of the gums I wanted to keep and separated the shells.

This initial segmentation was quite time-consuming as I was still unfamiliar with meshmixer at this point. I also needed to make sure the selection did not include teeth but still included the detailed shape of the gums.

Due to the trial and error nature of this, I was able to become more adept at using mesh mixer by discussing this segmentation with my professors and referencing online tutorials

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By combining the gum mesh with the previously arranged teeth I was able to create the first draft of the top jaw.

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Completed CAD Design for Version 1 of the Siren's  Jaws

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Completed CAD Design for Version 1 of the Siren's  Jaws

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A half-set of human teeth I was able to find in an open-source respository

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Within the mesh, there is a visible amount of detail provided by the segmentation in ITK-Snap

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Using Known Anatomies for  Imagined Anatomies

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Using Known Anatomies for  Imagined Anatomies

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A 3D rendering of a dental scan I was able to find online.

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While carrying out the project, we discovered the synthetic anatomy module years prior had done something incredibly similar. A group had even also used Galapagos as an inspiration

We felt as a group we would rather complete a project which we had more personal interest

However as Nur had already put alot of work and research into bone structure and musculature, we could not, with good conscience abandon that work.

We needed a project that would incorporate Nur's claw design, but still be interesting to us.

The Siren met all of these criteria

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Second Fred print in comparison with the first

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Second Fred print in comparison with the first

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My first 3D print was unsuccessful but taight ,me  about the importance of printer settings.

Fred the frog is a test print which usually has a variety of accessories added to himself.

My first print was a fractal fred with a smaller frog sitting on his head, with an even smaller frog sitting on the second's frog head and so on and so forth.

In hindsight, the print was more of a test of the resolution of the printer, rather than my competency with 3D printing.

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Here is an image of the completed 3-D print lung

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Here is an image of the completed 3-D print lung

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While I was searching for the hand MRIs I familiarised myself with ITK-SNAP

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While I was searching for the hand MRIs I familiarised myself with ITK-SNAP

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Above is shown an image of the lungs I successfully segmented form a torso MRI that was provided

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Imagined Anatomies - Making use of existing anatomies

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Imagined Anatomies - Making use of existing anatomies

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Once I realized we would most likely need to model the musculature of a hand, we discussed the possibility of creating a silicone mould of the muscles and webbing.

Instead of recreating complex humanoid muscle systems in CAD, I concluded it would be more realistic and accurate to segment the muscles from an upper extremity MRI.

Unfortunately I was unable to find MRI's that met my requirements from any online repository so I reached out to lecturers within the Biomedical Engineering Department

I asked Prof Rhode and emailed Dr Ipek about possibly acquiring these images but was unsuccessful.

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At this point we believed we would be focusing on the hands. As such, Nur designed an initial diagram of the hand musculature of the future humans.

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Existing Predators on the Galapagos Islands

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Existing Predators on the Galapagos Islands

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If we were going to represent the future evolutions of humans, we need to discuss what types of stimulus they would be evolving to survive.

I personally carried out research on predators, whilst other members of my team looked into:
- Flora and Fauna
- Food/Prey
- Temperature

As the book suggested orcas would be the main predators of these humans (which we understood would not be geographically accurate), we also looked into orca hunting tactics

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This Gantt chart remains unfinished. This is because we changed our idea to the extent that the chart no longer applied. At that point a Gantt chart would have been redundant as we were so close to finishing.

However we did refer to the Gantt chart throughout the project informally to see if we were on schedule to complete the project

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After our initial meeting, we began to explore the idea of imagined anatomies and what sorts of external stimuli would lead to these changes.

Initially our focus was on the hands and how they would change:
- Bones
- Connective Tissue
- Muscles

We also began to look into what genetic defects would lead to the evolution

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Pink Creative Cat Skull Illustration Business Card

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Initial Project Idea - Dr Darren Williams

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Initial Project Idea - Dr Darren Williams

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We met for the first time as a group and with our supervisor Dr Darren Williams.

This is when we became familiar with the project proposal.

We began to explore how we would execute this idea and what sorts of prints we would need to produce.

At this point I made a Gantt Chart to track our progress

This is the point we decided to focus on Imagined Anatomies

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Creating  a table display and story line from the item

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Creating  a table display and story line from the item

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The three words we attempted to represent were:
Betrayal
Fashion
Karma

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Further discuss the properties of the item, in terms of emotion

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Prompt: Take ten seconds ro draw your item. Flip the paper and do so again taking 30 seconds

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Prompt: Draw your item without removing your pen from the paper

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Prompt: Draw your item without removing your pen from the paper

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Note details about your item:
- Material
- Measurements
- Brand
- Condition

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I believe I made a mistake when I assumed the items in the bag would be familiar and everyday items. I did this in both roles.

Overall I have learned to question my assumptions when encountering design and brainstorming challenges.

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- Lack of communication in general
- Dismissal of new ideas
- One-sided idea building
- Variable goals
- Contradiction and lack of compromise
- Uneven deliberation of workload
- Dishonesty

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- Frequent briefing
- Clear goals
- Simple language
- Leaving room for new ideas
- Building off of each other
- Technical data that is presented in a variety of ways
- Balance of realism/idealism

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Now that we've settled on an appropriate topic, we narrowed down our prints to three main prints
- Webbed Hand
- Skeletal hand
- Jaws (This was my individual focus)

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Minimal Modern Urban Style Business Cards (7)

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3D Printing and Clinic - TinkerCAD - Make your LOGO

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3D Printing and Clinic - TinkerCAD - Make your LOGO

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I found this lecture to be incredible useful. I think designing this print its what led to my preference of TinkerCAD over Fusion360 for simple prints.

I was able to experiment with creating holes, text and the sketch function on TinkerCAD. Overall I believe the print came out well but was limited by the fact I used a large layer thickness.

There is also evidence that layers melted together around the letter and at certain points around the edge of the print.

I added a hole to this print, as it now acts as a keychain for me.

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Minimal Modern Urban Style Business Cards (4)

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Minimal Modern Urban Style Business Cards (2)

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Notes for this module

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Prompt:  Create an Alien given the following criteria
Armoured
Hunter/Killer
Camouflage
Many Offspring

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I have displayed Week 3's exercise as a Padlet

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Question: What's in the Bag?

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Question: What makes for good and bad communication?

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Week 1 - Spaghetti Bridge  CANVA

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Week 5 - Brainstorming and Table Display

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Week 5 - Brainstorming and Table Display

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18/02/2022

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11/02/2022

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Week 3 - Anatomical models and perception

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Week 3 - Anatomical models and perception

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04/02/2022

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Week 2 - Communication and Interpretation

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Week 2 - Communication and Interpretation

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28/01/2022

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21/01/2022