Ive been experimenting with 3d modelling from the clay casts, Multiple photographs from all angles were taken of the clay cast and imported into Autodesk Recap to create 3d models of the hole for printing. The cast immediately looked like a landscape surface with an ambiguous scale.
This is a test print of an actual road hole at a much smaller scale and at a total height of 1.5mm. I’ll be experimenting with printing isolated sections of road holes to test the level of detail and planning to make much larger plates by printing tessellating sections of holes at actual size. I need to work on reducing or utilising the raft that forms around the object during printing as I don’t want this in the final prints and it isn’t east to cut it away accurately afterwards.
