Paper-craft Objects: Digital Samples

Below are objects that hold some sort of importance to me, that have been recreated in Rhino and unfolded. Some objects were seemingly simple, yet difficult to unfold. What I found most interesting about this process was how to turn complex shapes, or organic forms into planar surfaces to be unfolded.

The first object I recreated is a heart-shaped glass frame. It has been on my desk, with a photo of my family in it, since I was around six.

The next object I wanted to connect to hockey, a sport that has lots of objects that mean something to me. I quickly realized most were to complicated to unfold. I decided on a miniature hockey stick that I got from playing in Hockey Day in Canada.

While I was working on this project (and really most of the day) my earbuds were in playing music. I recreated one earbud in two separate pieces.

Here is a three-person friendship necklace charm. Super cheesy but I loved it in jr. high, and it made a really cool unfolded form. I only own the right side, but it makes more sense all together.

Continuing with the necklace theme, here are the two pieces on a necklace that I wear now. The stones warm up really fast, so I hold it to calm down.

This is the two pieces from my tea steeper. I definitely need tea to get through university, and tea would be very bad without anything to steep it in.

Here is my lip balm container, the only thing besides the earbud that I didn't create from memory. It was sitting on the table next to the keyboard, and it seemed very underappreciated. I also put tabs on this and printed out, to practice folding paper for the next parts of this assignment.

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