Brainstorming & Preparation Process¶
Poison Dart Frogs are tiny gangsters¶
PHOTO CREDITS: Jose M. Padial ; CalPhotos. 2024. Regents of the University of California, Berkeley. Accessed on January, 2024. Available online at: https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/
PHOTO CREDITS: Jan Ranson ; CalPhotos. 2024. Regents of the University of California, Berkeley. Accessed on January, 2024. Available online at: https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/
When you think about it: These tiny poison dart frogs are gangsters! To protect themselves from their natural predators they do exactly the opposite of what most animals do in the wild, which is to camouflage and become invisible in their environment, so they are not seen by those who want to eat them. Not the poison dart frog! Oh no!! They take on the brightest colors and most intriguing patterns to allert their predators NOT to eat or else ... you die! The brighter the colors, the more poisonous the frog. Even to a point that the indigenous people of the rainforest rub the point of their arrows on the back of the frogs to sedate their prey. It doesn't get more Escobar than that.
SOME FROG CREATIVITY AND ROBOTICS ONLINE¶
To get some inspiration I researched online what people allready created with these colorful frogs.
AI Generated images of Frogskin Bags¶
To get some more creative inspiration I also generated AI images of poison dart frogskin designs on Open Art, an AI image generating platform. I inserted images of poison dart frogs to generate these images. The Open AI Platform link is: Open Art Image
Ideation & sketches¶
I'm adding the process models made in MIRO here as part of the ideation process.
PROJECT TOPICS¶
MINDMAP¶
After identifying the project topics in general I started working on my mind map I'm including a embedded link to the Miro here.
INITIAL SKETCHES AND "FRANKENSTEINS"¶
Sharing some initial sketches of purses with frog patterns and brainstorming on paper.
DIGITAL SKETCHES & DIGITAL PATTERN BOARDS FROM FROG IMAGES TO PATTERNS AND FORMS¶
In this phase I don't focus on the colors but more on the patterns and forms I want to use in my design.
The process of digital sketch making was developed in open source program Inkscape in 2D. Here are the main steps:
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Remove picture background. Before starting in Inkscape I removed the background of the picture in the standard photo editor of Microsoft.
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Save under another name
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Import picture into Inkscape
Be sure from here now to copy the object every time so the changes can be followed in different steps on the pattern board
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Trace bitmap
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Set view in outline
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Set line traces in hairline
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Break path apart and remove fill color
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From here you can best work in the Paths and layers menu to delete what you dont want to keep
Some variation to these steps are possibly:
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To break apart and rejoin paths by deleting or breaking nodes apart and dragging the node points back together.
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Once the patternboard is to satisfaction, save the file as an SVG or PDF and share it with Lightburn. This software is operation software for the lasercutter.
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Here you can do the final check on the size, material and laserpaths before laser testing.
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At the end its now time to lasercut. Lightburn sends the drawing straight to the laser.
BEREIS TREE FROG PATTERN BOARDS¶
Okopipi Blue Poison Dart Frog Pattern Board¶
Adelphobates quinquevittatus (Rio Madeira Poison Frog) Pattern board¶
Since the legs of this frog have regular circles (no irregularities that I could see at least), I just made a pattern of circle drawings and added them to the final product design, the Weaver travel wallet.
Design & Fabrication¶
Testing samples biomaterials, biochromes and pigments¶
I started journalling and add the pictures of the process here:
Lasercutting patterns from reclaimed wood¶
Next to lasercut some of the patters out of these wooden strips and add as patterns on materials as in scaffolding week
Mentoring notes¶
Mentors in all sessions may share with you their comments, notes, advise, projects and technical equipment to check out. This is good place to share those, so that you can find them later on when you need them the most!
Cecilia@reina.raveles
rain forest material calendar > what is over abundant when? those are a first selection of your materials to use rubber tree waste >> is saw dust the only waste? saw dust + iron sulfate = most probably will make black - maybe a good color given your frogs patterns try grasshopper definitions :slightly_smiling_face: https://class.textile-academy.org/tutorials/#grasshopper