architectural drawing of bear sculpture

Constructing the 'Big Blue Bear'

“I See What You Mean”, is a monumental sculpture by Lawrence Argent installed in Denver, CO in 2005 at the Colorado Convention Center. I was Director of Digital Fabrication at Kreysler & Associates during its construction. Bear model in RhinoThe two kinds of fabrication lines are shown: assembly joints (shown as black lines around panels), and parting lines (shown as green lines). ...

Sand Painter set up in Studio at SIGGRAPH 2004

Sandpainter

Sand Painter was an 11’ x 17’ output device, printing ephemeral 1-bit images in silica sand. Installed at SIGGRAPH 2004 in Los Angeles, it was a collaboration inspired by drypainting traditions in art and hyper-scaling of design through digitization. Sandpainter project showing the machine and its output during a print. Image editing via vacuum. The CNC motion platform was provided by Bill Kreysler and I wrote the g-code interface. Gene Cooper developed the print head and did integration, and Karl Lang provided custom dithering for 1-bit images. ...