This week I tried to connect my previous week thoughts about noise with an object I really like, a surfboard.
These days, surfboard's cores is made of foam, either polystyrene or polyurethane.
These materials are light, very easy to shape, easy to cover with resin and fiber glass.
But in my opinion we can make surfboard's cores stronger, more aesthetic, and easier to build using new materials and techniques. I previously tried that with cardboard but even though I'm really happy with the aesthetic and the strength, a small problem remains. If the resin/ fiber glass overlay get a ding and the water goes inside, it takes a long time to dry the cardboard completely before fixing the hole.
In order to get rid of this problem I thought about using a hydrophobic material. The idea of 3d printing came to my mind. We can use strong filaments and maybe as sustainable as cardboard.
I then had to find a technique to fill a volume in a light and strong way, that's how I connected my idea with noise. Using noise we can randomly fill a volume with matter, we then have to interconnect these dots. If we think about it looks like random interconnected polygon cells. This is "Voronoi" tesselation.
Also this kind of technique allows to make a holed core. In my opinion "transparent" surfboard are beautiful.
From there I tried to generate Voronoi tessellation on a volume. It looked good.
Then I learned how to make a proper 3d Surfboard model on Rhino. (Now I can also use a CNC machine to shape polystyrene as my model).
Then came the most complicated part. I had to create this tessellation on my model. I followed a bunch of grasshopper tutorials and after around a week of trying different techniques, I succeeded !
The idea is to 3d print a small size prototype.
Later, because most of 3d printers are too small to make a full size board I thought about adapting my model to make a modular surfboard which can be perfect for traveling !
These days, surfboard's cores is made of foam, either polystyrene or polyurethane.
These materials are light, very easy to shape, easy to cover with resin and fiber glass.
But in my opinion we can make surfboard's cores stronger, more aesthetic, and easier to build using new materials and techniques. I previously tried that with cardboard but even though I'm really happy with the aesthetic and the strength, a small problem remains. If the resin/ fiber glass overlay get a ding and the water goes inside, it takes a long time to dry the cardboard completely before fixing the hole.
In order to get rid of this problem I thought about using a hydrophobic material. The idea of 3d printing came to my mind. We can use strong filaments and maybe as sustainable as cardboard.
I then had to find a technique to fill a volume in a light and strong way, that's how I connected my idea with noise. Using noise we can randomly fill a volume with matter, we then have to interconnect these dots. If we think about it looks like random interconnected polygon cells. This is "Voronoi" tesselation.
Also this kind of technique allows to make a holed core. In my opinion "transparent" surfboard are beautiful.
From there I tried to generate Voronoi tessellation on a volume. It looked good.
Then I learned how to make a proper 3d Surfboard model on Rhino. (Now I can also use a CNC machine to shape polystyrene as my model).
Then came the most complicated part. I had to create this tessellation on my model. I followed a bunch of grasshopper tutorials and after around a week of trying different techniques, I succeeded !
The idea is to 3d print a small size prototype.
Later, because most of 3d printers are too small to make a full size board I thought about adapting my model to make a modular surfboard which can be perfect for traveling !
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