Vases of tears + some inspiration

    I was super excited about this project because of all the funky shapes that I could make, but it was very soon that I realized that everything was going wrong at a rate I simply could not comprehend. Everything started out perfectly, I was making shapes and adjusting them in a way that would make really cool curves, but in the literal blink of an eye, nothing worked the way I needed it to. I started this train ride to a migraine by trying to cap the object, this was fairly straightforward, but only when triangles were not included (I have no idea why that would be a useful option, but whatever I guess), it looked great, the shape was incredible, and then everything went downhill, I tried to shell the shape, my computer froze and then BAM!

    Well, okay then, I made some changes to the placing of the thing and tried extruding the shape at the bottom of the shape to boolean union it to the frame of the vase, but no, that also was a failure.

    I even tried to not select the entire top face of the shape, but nothing except a frozen screen and that familiar text: 

    At one I ended up having three Rhino files open at the same time because two of them were frozen as I scrambled around trying to fix everything, and then like half an hour later when I checked those one of them crashed and closed without letting me save, so I have no idea whether that shell would have worked or not.

    

    

The shapes above became my saving grace, I ended up oversimplifying it making one funky shape for the base and a circle for the top, I capped the shape, copied it and shrunk it but left the height the same, put it inside the shape of the other original shape and did the boolean difference and that sort of worked, but it took a couple of days and much frustration, but technically I have something workable now.

  

I was so excited for this one, but so far no dice.

    This is one of the images I found that inspired some of the vases I tried to create. This particular set is from someone on Esty, so I don't know much about how it was made, or the dimensions of the pieces. The squiggly curves are what I was most excited about, I did manage to get some that looked really cool with the groves and the angle of the curve at the top, but like I mentioned before, I couldn't get it to work when trying to make the shell of it.

    This is some of Kate Blacklock's work, she is, for the most part a ceramist, she also paints and works with sculpture, but she's been making work like these with the 3d printer. 3D Printed Ceramics — Kate Blacklock