Platinum 3D-Drukwerk · 2020
Unream Lamp
by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng
- A' Design Award in Platinum 2020 in 3D-Drukwerk
- CLIENT: MIT HCI Engineering Group
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,399,246
- Verification code F2E45DF01F · Verify this award
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About Unream Lamp
Unream is 'n lamp wat vervaardig is met multi-materiaal voxel 3D-drukwerk. Die oppervlak is bedek met lentikulêre lense wat saam met die kleurinhoud gedruk word. Unream vertoon verskillende kleure vanuit verskillende kykhoeke, sodat die voorwerp 'n bewegende beeld blyk te vertoon wanneer 'n persoon verbyloop. Die lamp dien as 'n voorwerp in daglig en as 'n ligbron in die nag. Die hoogte is 220 mm en die breedte is 100 mm. 'n Berekeningsgebaseerde werkvloei ken materiaaleienskappe aan elke voxel toe, wat optiese teksture op vryvorm-oppervlakke moontlik maak.
About the A' Design Award in Platinum
Unream Lamp is 'n wenner van die A' Design Award in Platinum, 'n uiters prestigieuse erkenning wat toegeken word aan werklik uitsonderlike, elegante en manjifieke ontwerpe. Platinum-wenners is wonders van skepping, getuienisse van die grense van intellektuele kreatiwiteit, en toon die ongeëwenaarde professionaliteit en vernuf van hul ontwerpers. Daar word verwag dat hierdie ontwerpe die mees bekende werke sal wees wat die estetika van 'n era bepaal, tot die welsyn van die samelewing bydra en die grense van kuns, wetenskap, ontwerp en tegnologie uitbrei. Unream Lamp toon 'n transendente vlak van uitnemendheid en maak die wêreld ongetwyfeld 'n beter plek met sy voordelige en waardevolle eienskappe. Unream Lamp is 'n werk wat die A' Design Award in Platinum gewen het en wat begeertes aanwakker, inspireer, opwek, verruk en groot vreugde laat opvlam.
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- Unique Properties
- Unream is the first 3D printed object that displays dynamically by itself. With the most advanced multi-material voxel printing technology, we create 'dream-like' materials that used to exist only in the digital world. Covered by lenticular lenses, Unream is a daytime artifact and night lamp revealing dynamic colors in different viewing angles. With Unream, we reimagined the relationship between human, space, and objects by expanding binary material presence to dynamic material experience.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Height: 220 mm * Width: 100mm
- Tags
- 3D printing, Multi-material printing, voxel printing, lenticular effect, lighting design, dynamic material, material interface, illusory material, optical textiles
- Production Technology
- Most of the material is a single layer of a separate entity that only exists uniformly on a product surface. With Unream, we break this inertial thinking by embedding information into three-dimensional matter (voxel) and assign different material properties to each voxel in multi-material printing. Designers can use our computational workflow to create object interfaces with various material distributions that can display unique material expressions.
- Design Challenge
- Structural textures are extremely hard to be applied on a free-form model using 3D printing. With our workflow, not only structural textures but also optical textures can be applied on any 3D surface. With Unream, we've developed a computational workflow that can assign different material properties to each voxel in multi-material printing.
- Research
- Unream is one of the products designed with "illusory material": a MIT research about 3D printing lenticular effect. The lenticular effect people can create, and the quality of optical aberrations is highly restricted by existing manufacturability in optical lens and printer resolution. Normally, the making of lenticular sheet and content images are separate and handled by different people. With multi-material 3D printing, we can design the optical lens together with the image content, experimenting with different shapes and depths of the lens, surface form, and even the transparency and hardness of the image content. At the product/object level, it is possible to apply the lenticular effect on any form, manipulating the optical properties of any object surface.
- Inspiration
- There are increasing conversations around interactive and responsive materials, most of them require additional medium like electronic input. We want to create a new material organization that responds directly to user intervention or the environment. With multi-material 3D printing, we envision a future where designers can manipulate color, texture, and reflectivity of materials freely, creating objects with unique optical expressions that can be never achieved with other methods.
- Project Duration
- The project started in June 2019 at MIT and finished in February 2020 at San Fransisco.
- Operation Flow
- When walking pass the object, it looks like a digital screen with ambient animation.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng, 2020
- Image Credits
- Jiani Zeng
