Reverse engineering
I discover I have been exploring reverse engineering as I am trying to create an object which already exists physically – the needle. However as the needle in the video (the source material for this project) has been altered to become the no pointed needle it for me becomes a new object that doesn’t exist physically. Although the object image can be printed and measured through a video still print. There are technologies which are used in reverse engineering such as 3D scanners (which can create a CAD drawing of an existing object), which in this case wouldn’t work because there isn’t anything 3D to scan, as the object only exists digitally as moving image or a video still.
The no pointed needles came out the machines this week to much excitement. After all this time of thinking and trying to visualise this very particular object I can now hold it in my hand. I have two sets of objects, one from the Plastics RP machine which has two nozzles which dispense liquid plastic according to the design specified. The other set comes from the machine which prints a layer of binder on a plaster type surface again to the specified design. The outcome in both cases are physical objects which can be handled.
