RE: https://mastodon.nu/@ahltorp/117597169740637353
Such a cool shape, I wasn't aware that potter plotters are a thing!
What the art from @sml made me think of, however, was the work I did by replacing the almost straight lines with squiggly lines, making the piece have a sort of waffle structure by overlaying inverted variants of the line. Here is an example, and also a video of the piece being printed.
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@sml These were constructed by taking a very standard 3D printer and attaching a thick syringe manually filled with clay instead of a traditional nozzle. Then pressurised air was fed into the syringe to push the clay out in a semi-controlled fashion.
One of the problems with this design is that if the air breaks through the clay in the syringe, for example when there is too little clay left, the flow of air ruins the piece.