Beautiful Rapid Prototyping Art: Chrysanthemum by Michaella Janse van Vuuren

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on June 22, 2009 at 10:24 pm


The Chrysanthemum is a centerpiece designed by South African designer Michaella Janse van Vuuren. It’s a combination of bowl/candle holder made with rapid prototyping (and manufacturing) using laser, so it’s a perfect combination of art and engineering:

The centrepiece reflects my passion for the textures, shapes and patterns found in nature. I especially like to interpret those objects that have a repetitive mathematically founded pattern. Some objects are immediately recognisable, such as the Chrysanthemum, others are more abstract. Direct 3-dimensional manufacturing methods, such as selective laser sintering (SLS) used to create the Chrysanthemum allows me to design intricate textures and objects. These textures and objects would have been impossible to execute by hand, yet the centrepiece still retains the beauty and tactile feeling of a natural object.

The Chrysanthemum is directly manufactured with the EOS P380 using the PA2200 polyamide material.

Link – via Why Me Design


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8 comments to "Beautiful Rapid Prototyping Art: Chrysanthemum by Michaella Janse van Vuuren"

  1. Zo
    June 22nd, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    It's not as pretty or interesting when it's not lit up like that.

  2. Mytake
    June 22nd, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    Looks like an homage to the Blooming Onion.

  3. Johnny Cat
    June 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 am

    WANT as a giant portrait to hang in my house.

  4. Kalel
    June 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 am

    Not so much craftsmanship as programming skill.

  5. Johnny Cat
    June 23rd, 2009 at 12:23 am

    and what's with the solitary orb in the upper left! crazy!

  6. jenjen
    June 23rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    Man that's some gorgeous work. I love the other sculptures at the linked site - they remind me of diatoms - which somehow nature manages to create without lasers. Really interesting. I can't wait to see how this technology develops - will it ever come down to the consumer level?

  7. tipple
    June 27th, 2009 at 4:54 am

    They aren't too bad but there are far better examples out & about. http://www.evolution-of-genius.de/gallery/default.htm or http://www.bathsheba.com/gallery/

    The models are made with a free application called TopMod & probably rendered in Maxwell. Rapid prototyping of Topmod sculptures is now becoming cheaper. Google 'Shapeways' site.

  8. Aaron
    November 17th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    Looks like Lavos erupting from the earth and preparing to rain destruction upon the masses!


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