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3D Printing: The Importance of Patience and Teamwork

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For our final 3D printing project, me and my partner Emily created this abstract structure by combining the concepts and ideas that we generated separately into a brand new form. By analyzing our models and working together to create a brand new design, we were able to sucessfully create a unique and interesting 3D-printable structure that combines both of our artistic voices into one.     We first started by examining the models we generated from the idea process of this project. We took each model into consideration as to how it would form into a proper structure, and eventually settled on the hourglass shape that I had created, and the twisting support beams that Emily had created. We also originally wanted to incoperate Emily's heart-shaped design and the arch, but they were both cut due to not being easy to print. We did however split the arch in half, which can be seen in our final product. My Models Emily's Models We did some early process sketches that aided us in creat