I recently visited the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Cleveland. It was really incredible to see the building and the art exhibits. Very inspiring. I met with some very kind staff there and showed them some of the 'meshagons', considering a potential exhibit. We got to talking and it was quite an exciting discussion. Then, it occurred to me... "how about meshing the building itself"?
It is a prismatic shape so it should be do-able. I downloaded the structure/dimensions from Google (i.e. Sketchup) and after about 2 weeks of work , here are some pics of the building and the new mesh. I'm hoping that this would be a great addition to their collection. It would be nice in the lobby, etc.
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It is a prismatic shape so it should be do-able. I downloaded the structure/dimensions from Google (i.e. Sketchup) and after about 2 weeks of work , here are some pics of the building and the new mesh. I'm hoping that this would be a great addition to their collection. It would be nice in the lobby, etc.
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Pictures of the MOCA building. It is quite an amazing/interesting structure...
Renderings of manifold (printable) FE mesh of the MOCA structure. I have been learning 'cycles' in Blender3D and it looks great! This is what I envision what the mesh would look like viewed in a room/lobby/space. The mesh is confirmed printable in Shapeways and possibly Gigabot at even one meter height. It could be a quite a stunning art/math/sculpture for MOCA. Click on the images for larger views.
Here is a 3-D rotatable model of the MOCA building mesh in SketchFab. Note that i've rendered this in 'gray' because the black polymer (Which I actually prefer and is shown the renders above) does not look good in SketchFab. NOTE2 these takesa while to load because the mesh is quite large. If you are on a mac/apple use firefox to view. Safari doesn't appear to work.
Below is a wire-frame rendering of the MOCA mesh that shows the very high quality polygon (triangular) surface ready for printing. It's actually quite aesthetically interesting to put this in full-screen and zoom in to the middle... quite 'whoa' IMHO.