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*Me trying to wrap my head around directions, and Cecilia's explanation of making a module in Rhino :)*
## Test 1: keep it simple, explore materials
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*Playing and assembling with the same module cut from different materials, Loes Bogers*
I designed a very simple module first to just understand what playing with assembling already gives me without making the design more complex. Start simple, expand:
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*The first design: rectangles with both slots and tabs for each direction*
**Same module, different materials**
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**fake leather* (green) - keeps integrity very nicely! Lies very flat, few burn marks, nice clean cut, totally keeps its shape, falls heavy down the lines of the body. Can be very nice.
**organza* (hot pink) - love the color, love the transparency effect. Hate how much it frays during handling. This is not for me at all. Also cutting at a diagonal didn't solve this. I dont' have a high pain threshold for fraying fabric.
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*Playing and assembling with the same module cut from different materials, Loes Bogers*
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*Testing with EVA foam and loose felt, Loes Bogers*
**Oh a potential winner!**
**the EVA foam* - this is thermoformable hobby foam - a property that could be nice to explore later too - and it's alive! Even using plan rectangles it starts to curve a bit, and playing with directions, alternating between slotting the tabs in from the back or front already gives curves, and creates tubes shapes. Greaaaat!!!! It also feels very nice on the skin. It's a bit stinky to cut, and there's slight burning but I can try reduce it with the settings. The tabs do change shape a little when manipulating it, but it also adds a nice irregularity to the computational vibe I guess? I can live with it. It can stand some diffuse strain, but not tearing at one point.
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*Testing with EVA foam and loose felt, Loes Bogers*
## Test 2: Increasing and decreasing
For the second tests I wanted to continue with the fake leather and foam and try to make modules that I can use to increase and decrease to make nice shapes around the body. I took the church as inspiration but went for a somewhat simpler diamond shape.
I started with only one manipulation: by only increasing the size of the module on one axis and keeping the other the same. I cut it and just started playing with it. I thought changing both axes could be the next step.
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*The second design, increasing in height, Loes Bogers*
I started with only one manipulation: by only increasing the size of the module on one axis and keeping the other the same. I cut it and just started playing with it. I thought changing both the x AND Y axes could be the next step. But then a happy accident happened...
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*Swatches: (clockwise) denim outside and inside of cloth, loose felt, fake leather, EVA foam (white and pink). The white, pink and green swatch are cut in the second iteration of the design, you can see how they start curving. Loes Bogers*
But that step never came! I unintentionally started rotating the pieces, thereby accidentally creating increase on the x-axis AND the y-axis, which magically worked out really well!
That step never came! I unintentionally started rotating the pieces, thereby accidentally creating increase on the x-axis AND the y-axis, which magically worked out really well!
*Explanation of what happened and how it accidentally has some kind of mathematical logic to it...???*
