Continuing Work with the 3D Printer

Here's a quick update about our work with the 3D printer:

In this photo, Aric is learning more about Form, and technology, all at once.  He is sculpting a 3D image in the program Sculptris.  We then converted it to a .stl file in MeshLab.

We then printed a small rendition of his digital sculpture!

Sculptris Solution?

Yesterday, we had our first multi-
colour print.  It came from the pre-loaded SD card.  It came out nicely:

More importantly, we found a way to print from Sculptris, the 3D design software we have been using.  First, I created a simple 3D head in Sculptris.  I then Exported it from Sculptris, thus creating a .obj file.  I then used MeshLab.  I imported the .obj file into MeshLab.  It looked like this:

I then Exported the project as a .stl file.  MakerWare recognizes and can print .stl files.

 Then it was just a matter of printing. An hour later:

GREAT SUCCESS!  Now we came design in digital 3D as a class and print our work.
Stay tuned!

Another day with the 3D printer!

Day two: Klein Bottle Complete

Felix Klein first described the Klein bottle in 1882.  He envisioned a "closed manifold, meaning it is a compact manifold without boundary." 

Felix's modern graphic might look like this:

This challenge came from Mr. Morley in the math department...could the 3D printer created a Klein bottle?  If you give it a couple hours...YES!!

Now, wrapping my art mind around this was a little bit difficult, but this is a truly unique project.  It's outside is its inside but it can still hold water?

Now, we are learning to sculpt digitally in 3D.  Here's Erica sculpting on the computer!

Once we complete our sculptures, it is our goal to find a way to print using the Makerbot!

The 3D Printer has Arrived!!

GDCI has an exciting new piece of technology - A Makerbot 3D Printer!!!

When the boxes first arrived...I have to admit I was a little nervous about the set-up!

 I was sure to follow the directions carefully.  I felt like a novice...new tech can be a little intimidating!

Fortunately, it was a pretty smooth install.  In about 20 minutes the Makerbot was up and running!

The students all gathered around. For some, myself included, this was the first time ever seeing an object printed in three dimensions!

For an initial test print, I chose an object that would have real world usability, though perhaps not for me :). We printed a comb.

I may sound like such a newbie, but it was pretty awesome to watch the printer come to life, the spools slowly feeding filament into the extruders.  I realized we were going to need to learn what the components of the printer were.

Here's Hayden with the comb:

And Mackenzie and Christina:

I began to see the irony of choosing a comb as our first 3D print.....

We decided to try printing an architectural structure as our second print.  Wall street!

Trying a cross-curricular approach, we got a Klein Bottle 3D imagery:

The print should be ready for tomorrow!

All things told, it was an exciting first day with the Makerbot!  Stay tuned as we learn together, printing with greater complexity and creativity!

Realism Challenge

Here is a challenge I am issuing to my Grade 11 students: let's get really real!!  O.K., not sure what I mean?  Check out this youtube video:

Now Google the term "realism challenge" and have a look at all of the amazing work artists have been doing!

Now it's your turn!  Pick an object, place it on a sheet of white paper, and replicate what you see.  Take a photo or video of your results and let's see how you did.

Good luck (and if you are in a grade other than Grade 11 and want to try this, I greatly encourage you to do so).  In the mean time, enjoy your March Break in the safest and most fun way you can!

Mr. McClinchey

Awesome Opportunity!!

Follow the link below!!

http://youthartsweek.ca/popupgallery

"The Scream", 2004 Article

The following is a Grade 10 literacy reading selection for Feb. 27, to be completed during silent reading.   Look for explicit and implicit questions at the end: 2004 Article: Munch’s Famous ‘Scream’ and‘Madonna’ Stolen (source: chronicle.augusta.com)

Police fielded a flood of tips but still had no motive Monday for the daring theft of “The Scream” and another Edvard Munch masterpiece by armed robbers who barged into a lightly guarded Oslo museum and ripped the paintings from the walls before the eyes of stunned visitors.

Police, who launched a nationwide hunt for the works, said there had been no word from the thieves, who were widely expected to demand a ransom. “The Scream,” a 20th century icon of angst, is too well known for the thieves to try to sell, experts say.

“It can only be with horror that you react to something like this,” Deputy Culture Minister Yngve Slettholm said by telephone, also expressing shock over what he said was Norway’s first armed art theft. “We can only hope they end up back at the Munch Museum.”

“The Scream” — there are four versions of Munch’s best-known painting — depicts an anguished figure who appears to be screaming or shielding his ears from a scream.

Masked, armed thieves broke into the Oslo’s Munch Museum on Sunday and, as visitors and staff watched in shock, tore “The Scream” and another famous Munch work, “Madonna,” from the walls and loaded them into a car. The getaway car and the picture frames were found by police in Oslo hours later.

Oslo police inspector Iver Stensrud said all resources were being used to search for the national treasures, and that tips continued to pour in. “We are still working on new tips and are hoping for more,” he said on the state radio network NRK.

Stensrud said the police were conducting a broad investigation, and have not focused on specific motives. Experts said the paintings were probably stolen for ransom or as a “trophy” robbery to impress other criminals, since it would be virtually impossible to sell them anywhere because they are so well known.

No suspects yet 

‘The paintings could just as well be in Oslo as anywhere else,” he said. Stensrud said police have been interrogating witnesses, but have no suspects.

“The world screams,” said a headline in the major Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten over international reaction to the theft. Another newspaper, Oslo’s Verdens Gang, said the Munch paintings were stolen on the same date, Aug. 22, as “Mona Lisa” was stolen in Paris in 1911.

The Munch works were not insured against theft, because it was impossible to set a price on them, said John Oeyaas, managing director of Oslo Forsikring, the city-owned company that insure the paintings against damage.

“It was a conscious decision,” he told The Associated Press. “These are irreplaceable, and insurance would mean nothing. The total loss of an irreplaceable item cannot be compensated.... In principle, these are artworks that are not possible to sell.”

However, he said the theft in from one of Norway’s most visited museums raises the question of security.

“How can we make these artworks available to the public while still securing them?” he said.

Second such robbery 

It’s the second time in a decade that a version of the painting had been stolen. Another version of “The Scream” was taken from Oslo’s National Gallery in February 1994, but recovered three months later.

Slettholm, of the culture ministry, said it was impossible to totally protect artworks “unless we lock them in a mountain bunker” especially when thieves are willing to use force.

“It is food for thought that the spiral of violence has now reached the art world,” he said. “This is a first for Norway, and we can only be glad that no one was hurt.”

The stolen “Madonna” was painted in 1893-1894, and depicts an erotic Madonna with a blood-red halo in a dark, swirling aura. Munch later produced woodcut lithographs with a similar depiction.

Munch, a Norwegian painter and graphic artist who worked in Germany as well as his home country, developed an emotionally charged style that was of great importance in the birth of the 20th century Expressionist movement.

He painted “The Scream” in 1893, and together with “Madonna” it was a part of his “Frieze of Life” series, in which sickness, death, anxiety, and love are central themes. He died in 1944 at the age of 81.

Questions

1) In what city and country was the painting stolen from?

2) In what year was the "Mona Lisa" stolen?

3) In what year was "The Scream" painted?

4) What do you think is the universal appeal of the painting "The Scream"?

5) This crime seems particulary violent and chaotic.  In what ways is this act similar to the painting and different than art in general?

6) If you could have any one painting in your house, which one would it be?