Paper Craft: Prototype Flora Periculi

Flora Periculi

In this project I wanted to utilize papercraft objects for an interactive installation. It would incorporate the objects as a housing unit for an Arduino microcontroller, to produce sound and play audio files when viewers are within close proximity.

I wanted to recreate a plants defensive strategies against herbivores like toxins, mimicry, and mechanical protection like spines and thorns.

examples: Cacti with thorns, Vibrant Foxglove and its toxins, Succulents Camouflaged like rocks.

But in this case the organism would exist in a fictional exo-planet with strong winds and high levels of UV radiation. Unlike the earth plants that inspired it, this organism would produce sound to deter danger and glow a bright bluish-purple hue.

On its current iteration I've designed the plant to have sharp polygonal body, and a base inspired by the shape of barnacles as it would likely mount itself to the ground due the planets strong winds.

Cutting Template: (used blender's paper unwrap addon for a quick prototyping)

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P01: The Bespoke Object, Proposal.

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First Definition Creating solid shapes from curves using loft Animation Attempting to animate 3d models within a specific track/path/curve Stacked Slices Creating a Sliced model of a penguin and experimenting with reductions in overall form Boundary Surfaces Patch Replicate/ Remediate Preparing a Model for 3d Printing and using it as a Master for Slip Casting and of course making the clay object through repetition. Surface Morph Patch

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