3D Printed Book of Bas Relief pieces from The Art Institute of Chicago published Sep 15, 2014
Download and print your own copy: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:463657
3D Printed Book of Bas Relief from The Art Institute of Chicago by Tom Burtonwood. Folium is released under the following Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Folium was produced at the Art Institute of Chicago between January and August 2014 by Tom Burtonwood as part of his Artist in Residence in the Ryan Education Center. Folium is a 3D Printed Book of Bas Relief from the museums collection spanning over two thousand years of human history. The title Folium is derived from the Latin for leaf and refers to the decorative leaves that allow each page to flex.
Big thank you to Susan Kuliak, Caitlin Deutsch, Meghan McClaren, Liz Neely and everyone at the Art Institute of Chicago for hosting me during my Artist in Residence there. Special thank you to Yasmine Afshar for her invaluable help selecting and scanning the pieces at AIC and organizing Folium.
Folium features 3D scans produced using Autodesk's 123D Catch and Recap photogrammetry applications. These scans we edited in Netfabb Pro, cleaned up for 3D printing and combined with STL files generated in Autodesk's Tinkercad to create the "pages." Each of the scans is printed with the positive and negative on the same page, allowing people to use malleable materials to create copies of all the pieces inside Folium. Simply undo the two securing bolts and slide the pages out. Detach from the flexible leaf if you choose. When finished simply reinsert and slide the bolt through and secure with the nut.
Each page is attached to a flexible leaf held in place by two 136mm long bolts and which are secured by two knurled nuts. The nuts and bolts are derived from "Knurled surface finishing library" an openSCAD library by aubenc ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:9095 ) Each "leaf" should be printed in Ninjaflex, PolyFelx or a similar flexible thermoelastic polymer allowing the individual pages to flex and open like a "regular" book might. Folium is designed with braille translations of the front cover, and the list of works to aid recognition for the low sighted and visually impaired. The braille translations were produced using nischi's openSCAD Braille Writer library ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:36921 ) and jaqtikkun's openSCAD Braille numbers, 1-12 in Nemeth code with number sign ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:274081 ) Folium is available from Github in addition to Thingiverse. Additionally the Tinkercad models have been made available.
Github: https://github.com/tomburtonwood/folium
Tinkercad Spine: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/bYiRizB2SV4-folium-12-page-spine
Tinkercad Leaf: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/7ZT1JO5Ywbq-folium-decorative-leaf
Tinkercad Page: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/kVbAkJp3SCm-folium-page
List of Works
Relief Plaque Depicting the God Horus as a Falcon, Late Period - Ptolemaic Period
(664-30 B.C.)
Relief Plaque Depicting a Queen or Goddess, Ptolemaic Period (305-30 B.C.)
Relief Panel, first century A.D.
Buddha’s Footprints, India, Andhra Pradesh, second century
Stamped Tile with Crouching Ascetics, fifth century
Architectural Panel with Parrots, Indonesia, Java, ninth century
Coronation Stone of Motecuhzoma II (Stone of the Five Suns), fifteenth century
Plaque with Portrait of George Washington, nineteenth century
Louis H. Sullivan, Felsenthal, Eli B., Store: Decorative Panel early twentieth century.