In this project, Simpleware's image processing and mesh generation software was used to complete an ancient geological process through new technology. The goal of the project was to create a pseudomorph, an object that maintains an original shape over time while changing its inner materiality.
The pseudomorph in this project represented a snail that had become fossilised as an air void within the Jurassic Coast’s rockbed over millions of years. High-powered CT technology and Simpleware software was used to visualise the microstructure of Portland roach stone and to extract a mesh of the air void suitable for 3D printing as a new object.
Scans were made of the rock and the preserved airspace, with a single pseudomorph segmented using Simpleware ScanIP. The airspace was then meshed, scaled up and exported to a 3D printing process to be created as an RP model.
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