Nick Feffer
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D I G I T A L F A B R I C A T I O N
Lapis Box
2020
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Created as my final project for Dartmouth's CS29.05 - Digital Fabrication class with Professor Karolina Kawiaka.
This project took approximately a week to complete. Designed in Adobe Illustrator, the box's frame is comprised of laser-cut wood. The box itself creates an endless expanse. Using specially oriented one-way mirrors, the LED-lit interior of the box repeats endlessly, creating an infinite landscape. Inside the box are over a thousand pieces of laser-cut plexiglass, which can be interacted with through the hinged lid.
Medusa
2020
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Created for Dartmouth's CS29.05 - Digital Fabrication class with Professor Karolina Kawiaka. This project was to be an exercise in 3D scanning, using a work of physical sculpture as a starting point. Using a photogrammetry scan of Medusa by Harriet Hosmer, a statue located in Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art, and Autodesk SLICER for Fusion 360, I created horizontal slices of the marble bust to be stacked out of laser-cut wood, giving the piece its ridged appearance.
I later painted the wood in a thin layer of acrylic paint.
Neural Network
2020
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Created for Dartmouth's CS29.05 - Digital Fabrication class with Professor Karolina Kawiaka. This project was inspired by the appearance of neurons under a microscope and created using Adobe Illustrator. Each triangular tile is unique, and can be repositioned and joined onto another tile somewhere else in the puzzle. Designed to be interactive and ever-changing, the magnetic strips allow for repeated reorganization, much like how neurons branch and grow in the brain.