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Some photos from prototyping today. I figured out how I can allow the light to travel through composite various materials to create a glowing grain effect. Tomorrow I will take the rhino 3d model and cut out the same effect using the cnc machine…
fibre optic tubing as a choice of lighting
The three most suited colours here to the coffee shop environment are orange, green and white. The blue and pink often come with the party lifestyle there would suit a place more noisy like in a night club. The lighting colour is important as it will create a certain mood in it’s selected location. Although the light against the wood will create an elegance, I must be certain that I choose the best colour. Dark birch wood with the white glow will create a clear minimalist feel but may seem too minimalist and allow the product to become ‘cold’. Dark birchwood with the orange glow will still pass for ambient however the orange may create too much of a modern twist as it is a common colour associated with new sleek products, however it could work. I thought using green with the dark wood would create a neutral feel and allow the product to result in how I intended for it to remain as low tech and natural as possible. This idea is so that the table can pass off a natural feel onto it’s users to minimise force and sustain comfort.
These are a few conceptual drawings from the choices I gave myself for the final piece. The right hand side image is a sketch of the design I talked about in my previous post…more to come.
Despite almost going blind and having blind spots in my eyes after this process, my friend (an electrical engineer student) and myself were testing LED’s from a circuit board to work out the battery voltage we would need to allow the LED’s to shine as bright as I wanted. We fiddled around with the board and decided 4V was too much as the LED turned blue. The maximum brightness and best brightness from these will be 3.5 V therefore I will use 3V LED’s with 12V batteries meaning I can have 4 LED’s connecting to one battery.
The brightness of the LED is important for this design as I need the glow to almost penetrate the wood that I am using. The glow must be visible to the users of the table. I will follow up this post with further material selection for the end product.
A few days ago I mocked up a quick and basic sketch of my final design Untitled-2. However, I have to speak to a few people from digital media and from the engineering school so I plan to make this sketch look real. Hopefully after these two tutorials:
http://layersmagazine.com/night-lights-creating-a-glowing-neon-effect.html
http://vectips.com/tutorials/create-a-wood-grain-texture/
I am aiming to take these tutorials and apply them to my design in illustrator to give create a clear effect of how my design will look and work.
I like the wooden effect that comes with this table, think it would be a good bases to integrate parts of my project into an old style/shape table that was initially designed for sharing with others. Wood and a neutral green lighting system will keep an ambient atmosphere in the environment it will be used in.
http://wuttkewerks.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/starbucks-rebarreclaimed-wood-community.html
These are a few of the first photos I have taken from the process of creating the final piece. The final piece will be complete in 6 weeks but you will not be able to tell what it is until you see it. I will just be posing various photos along the way…
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