How do you make a ceremonial object feel finished before the final process exists?
An urgent physical base design and fabrication, delivered in about a week.
The What If
What if the object has to feel real on stage before the real manufacturing process is ready?
What made it hard
About one week, for a physical object whose whole job is to feel substantial in someone’s hands. A light part reads as a prop the moment it is lifted.
What we tried
A base design with a 3D-printing strategy and an internal sand-fill approach chosen to approximate the mass of the final bronze.
What reality said
Perceived quality in a held object is dominated by weight and balance rather than surface finish. Solving for mass first made a printed part read as finished.
The decision
GO. Delivered in the window and used as intended.
Who worked on it
- Tyler Stevens, Ph.D.Mechanical & Product Engineering
Sources: Tyler Stevens CV, supplied by client.
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