Above are the initial design in TinkerCAD & the 3D print using a copper filament.
Coding With TinkerCAD
After teaching a semester of Digital Design I've had the opportunity to retool it this semester with several ideas and goals in mind that I've developed during the course of the year. I have especially thought about how our high-school students can be setup to approach a variety of classes in our curriculum with a unique perspective and set of tools that they've gained as a freshman in Digital Design.
An exciting connection between algorithm and art is the new Codeblocks feature in TinkerCad. Creating geometric patterns of shapes in a recursive way leads our art to mimic a number of structures we find beautiful in nature, like the snowflake. This seemed like an ideal opportunity to guide my students in creating something beautiful while gaining an improved understanding of angles and recursive thinking.
I screen recorded the video below during my first exploration of Codeblocks and really enjoyed how simply you can create complex 2D & 3D shapes using Tinkercad that are so unique. Students will be creating their own design with this tool and I plan to add a short tutorial video to guide them in creating a loop that increments a variable to create a pattern with some basic introduction to a loop. I'll update my blog once I've created that video. In the meantime check out the shape I came up with below.
Check out the video of my 1st time tinkering with Codeblocks
Once I created the 2D design, I created a nested loop to change the plane and make it into a 3 dimensional design above
Below are the prints of the 3D design in a transparent black filament and a white filament
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