Structure Making

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Sample Making: stabilized the connecting sticks

Stabilized the connecting stick with resin

Sample Making: connectors

This structure are basically connected by these little regular spheres,every  two spheres connected together with regular size sticks.

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Structure sketch4

Another possible part of a deformable surface structure

Samples making: Using Jossi Press and Dooming Block to shape the aluminum pieces

For making samples of the repeated spheres structure, I did electric forming to ping pang balls to be a large size model. But I still need small samples to experiment that whether the structure works or not. This sample should be as detail and regular as possible, even using simple materials.

I used Jossi Press cut the 0.7mm aluminum sheet into 20mm dia rounds, then used dooming block to hammer them in to the half sphere as I sketched.

Aluminum is not a good material for doing this, cause it has bad ductility compared with other metal. But I choose it because it is lighter. There would be repeated spheres in this structure so the material need to be light.

Samples making – Electric forming the ping pang balls

Before electric forming the half ping pang balls, I need to draw holes on them, so that they could be stabilized by a wire instead of float on the liquid.

Structure sketches3 – Sphere

Made a development on repeated spheres structure.

The dia of big ball and small ball should keep the approximate proportion of 10:3.5, so that the small balls could spinning easily in the gap of big balls.

Structure Sketches2 – Sphere

Spheres got more flexible moving and spinning space

Structure Sketches

Tried with repeated cylinders, but didn’t achieve a good result