At SCI-Arc in LA on Friday 6-9pm I’m showcasing a bunch of VR designed fingerboard obstacles for my architecture masters thesis showcase. Posted a while back and have since been working with 3Face who’s been advising and collaborating especially on this big long park we CNCd out of MDF. Others are either lasercut wood, concrete, or a mix of both. If you’re in LA arts district Friday come thru!
update on the project of modeling fingerboarding obstacles in virtual/mixed reality and digitally fabricating them - doubling as part of my architecture masters thesis at SCI-Arc (designing for the body in play, using the body in play) - ((VR/XR modeling to digital fabrication methods for bespoke playscapes)) special thanks to Whois3Face (Lucas at slushcult) who's been collaborating with me on some other ramps and gave me feedback on these as they were coming to be. more to come! plan is to debut another big park this coming saturday at slushcult
happy to answer questions - i use a quest headset (waiting for the steam HMD) and sometimes gravity sketch to model in SubD that made the concrete one (3d print as master mold then silicone negative). the others were made in Rhino/Grasshopper using fologram for a live VR/XR connection. formal method for the rainbow was a solid with boolean subtractions from it, then made lil python grasshopper scripts to make the joists and lasercut everything. painted the stripes by hand with paint markers
anyway i try to stay optimistic and curious about emerging tools. here its about how automation can serve the body rather than creative decisions being beholden to 'the grid'
Hey yall I’m an artist & architecture academic that sculpts playscapes using VR and builds those forms using various methods of digital fabrication. I’m doing a postgrad masters thesis on this at SCI-Arc in LA so I have access to CNCs, laser cutters, metal shop, etc
I have the tools and techniques ready but don’t have the embodied wisdom as I’m not that good of a skater or fingerboarder…I need people to be like: “this would work better if you changed it in this way”-but in VR where you’d draw/sketch in 3D and i can model to match it.
I’d be making these with real metal concrete and wood to model what I could do full scale with a bigger budget. I specifically want to make funky shapes that haven’t been done or even attempted yet (but need your help so they actually make sense for fingerboarding)
If anybody is interested in LA I could maybe meet up I have a few headsets otherwise also happy to meet virtually the sculpting app we can use is gravity sketch which is free app (on a VR headset like a quest 2-3s) thanks yall
Edit: TLDR: Looking for fingerboarders either in LA or to meet in VR. Especially people who've designed/built fingerboard parks before or have a lot of experience with different park designs