Platino 3D Printing · 2020
Unream Lampara
by Jiani Zeng and Honghao Deng
- A' Design Award na Platino 2020 in 3D Printing
- CLIENT: MIT HCI Engineering Group
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,399,246
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About Unream Lampara
Ang Unream ay isang lampara na ginawa gamit ang multi-material voxel 3D printing. Ang ibabaw nito ay nababalot ng mga lenticular lens na inimprenta kasabay ng kulay na nilalaman. Nagpapakita ang Unream ng iba't ibang kulay mula sa iba't ibang anggulo ng pagtingin, kaya't ang bagay ay tila nagpapakita ng gumagalaw na imahe kapag may taong dumaraan. Ang lampara ay nagsisilbing isang dekorasyon sa araw at bilang pinagmumulan ng liwanag sa gabi. Ang taas nito ay 220 mm at ang lapad ay 100 mm. Isang computational na daloy ng trabaho ang nagtatalaga ng mga katangian ng materyal sa bawat voxel, na nagbibigay-daan sa mga optical texture sa mga free-form na ibabaw.
About the A' Design Award na Platino
Ang Unream Lampara ay nagwagi ng A' Design Award na Platino, isang napakaprestihiyosong pagkilalang iginagawad sa mga tunay na pambihira, elegante at kahanga-hangang disenyo. Ang mga nagwagi ng Platino ay mga kababalaghan ng paglikha, patunay sa mga hangganan ng intelektuwal na pagkamalikhain, at nagpapakita ng walang kapantay na propesyonalismo at henyo ng kanilang mga tagapagdisenyo. Inaasahang ang mga disenyong ito ang pinakakilalang likha na humuhubog sa estetika ng isang panahon, nag-aambag sa kapakanan ng lipunan at nagtutulak sa mga hangganan ng sining, agham, disenyo at teknolohiya. Ang Unream Lampara ay nagpapakita ng lampas-sa-karaniwang antas ng kahusayan at walang pasubaling ginagawang mas mabuting lugar ang mundo dahil sa kapaki-pakinabang at mahahalagang katangian nito. Ang Unream Lampara ay isang likhang nagwagi ng A' Design Award na Platino na gumigising sa mga hangarin, nagbibigay-inspirasyon, nagpapasigla, nagpapasaya at nagpapasiklab ng dakilang kagalakan.
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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
