Twins, Tomato hybrid II., Pear
Tomáš Medek
Twins
Using a 3D scanner, I scanned the gourd, which I adjusted to the required shape by deforming it in a 3D program. This was followed by modeling the organic structure on the surface of the object and creating the resulting composition, and then enlarging the object to a real scale and cutting it into individual printable parts depending on the size of the printing pad. Everything was precisely described and marked, because there were 360 parts for the final realization. It took one year to print all the parts. Individual connections are reinforced with metal pins. The last stage was the so-called postprocessing – sanding, sealing and spraying the final color.
Tomato hybrid II.
The inspiration for this object was a tomato that grew in our garden. It was a fleshy Brutus that was scanned and then modified in the computer where the polygons were reduced. Then I mapped a painting by expressionist painter France Marc onto the object. The intention was to express expression and color with a given interplay of inspirational sources. The virtual object was cut into 750 parts, which were printed in a 3D printer using colored strings. This was followed by folding and gluing and postprocessing (sanding, sealing, reinforcement). The whole process took a little over half a year.
Pear
It is based on a scanned dried pear fruit. The data was subsequently modified in the computer – the polygonal network was significantly reduced. The result was openwork shapes, which in their final form have a cubist impression. The color of the object was generated by the object texture program and the individual colors were printed directly from the color strings. This was followed by the gluing of individual parts and post-processing (grinding and filling with a 3D pen). The object was printed from 397 parts and was created for about half a year.
