Quarantine prints - 2. Vase & bowls

[jamcultur]

It took 54 hours to print the silver vase and its base. It stands 29 cm / 11.25 inches tall. I printed about 20 different bowls during quarantine. I started by writing a simple parametric program in OpenSCAD to generate bowl designs. I found that the parameters interacted in ways that made it hard to predict what the bowl would look like. The blue and yellow bowl designs were generated with that program. Then I wrote a generative program which had the computer randomly choose the seven key parameters that generated the bowl shape. It can generate billions of different bowl designs, some simple, some complex, some symmetric, some asymmetric, none boring. The gold bowl and red bowl designs were generated by that program. The purple vase is a pre-COVID print. I included it because I've uploaded the Customizer script to Thingiverse so that people can use it to design their own vases and bowls: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2940243 (Click on a thumbnail to see a bigger image.)