MARKENS
GRØDE
Built
Ongoing
The printer I ended up building uses delta kinematics and 2 separate motors for clay extrusion. The grasshopper script is able to create geometry from scratch, slice existing geometry, or a combination of the two, and is fully customisable in terms of bases, closed vs. open curves, and ramping.
The geometry for this specific collection is based on the roots and lower trunk of the Maclura pomifera tree, native to my birthplace in the South-Central United States, and is a tree species that I have found geometrically compelling since my youth.