How 3D Printing Is Expanding the Possibilities of Jewelry Design
CAD and 3D printing has opened up the world of jewelry design in areas never thought imaginable just a few years ago. One use of the technology in jewelry making is designing and digitally fabricating pieces based on patterns.To get more news about
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A company known as Nervous System has created pieces based on algorithmic design—numerical patterns associated with mathematics, computer programming and engineering. These patterns also appear naturally in biological settings. The Fibonacci sequence is perhaps the best known of all algorithms. Founded by Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci in the early 13th Century, it is characterized by the fact that every number after the first two is the sum of the two preceding ones:
The Somerville, Massachusetts-based design firm appears to be one of the very few that have applied algorithmic design into jewelry making and other products. The company recently unveiled, Corollaria, an algorithmic jewelry collection composed of intricate structures in brass and rubber based on biological systems.
Algorithmically generated designs are etched from brass sheets and shaped into 3D forms in a hydraulic press. They are further formed into dome shapes, giving the flat patterns depth and dimension.
The result is a full collection of delicate pieces with lattice- and filigree-like structures based on different shapes and patterns yet can easily be associated with the collection. The rubber pieces feature bigger and bolder shapes and patterns.
The founders of Nervous System, Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, say Corollaria is based on adaptive patterns that respond to environmental conditions. The small firm is perhaps best known for creating an entire dress using a 3D printer.
In Poland, a company called Knockoutdesign, created a multi-layered 24k gold pendant based on a map of the Old City of Jerusalem. Each gold layer is an attempt to reconstruct the Old City’s historical ethnic and religious complexity. The Upper layer represents the boundaries of the Old City and its major streets. The middle layer shows the division into four quarters (Armenian, Christian, Jewish and Muslim) marked by symbols of each religion. The bottom layer points out the holy places of those religions.
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