Creation of the Eurographics Award Trophy

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Creation of the Eurographics Award Trophy

• Carlo H. Séquin
• EECS Computer Science Division
• University of California, Berkeley

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Carlo Séquin with Cohesion
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Sculpture Generator I, GUI
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Hyperbolic Hexagon by B. Collins

• 6 saddles in a ring
• wound up 6-story
  Scherk tower
• Extending the Paradigm
• higher-order saddles
• adding a twist

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Closing the Loop
straight or twisted
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Brent Collins with Hyperbolic Hexagon II
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Heptoroidby Brent Collins and Carlo Séquin

• at Fermi Lab Art Gallery (1998).

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Snowsculpting Championships 2003

• The Team Whirled White
  Web (C. Séquin, S. Wagon, D. Schwalbe, B.
  Collins, S. Reinmuth)

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Maquette for Whirled White Web

• 3D-Print

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Splitting the Wheel
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The Components
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Creating the Half-Wheel Mold
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Dimpling the Clay Master
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Preparing the Last Piece of the Mold
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Pouring the Top Mold Piece
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Anatomy of the Mold
Master and the 3 small silicone rubber pieces
The large silicone rubber piece
Hydrostonemother mold(for rigidity)
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Assembling the Mold
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Filling Mold with Wax
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Extracting the Wax Cast
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Wax Copy and FDM Master
Wax-coated FDM master
Wax copy from mold
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7 Secondary Copies in Wax
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Application of Ceramic Slurry
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Various Ceramic Shells
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Bronze Casting
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Breaking the Ceramic Shell
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Many Cast Pieces
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Cleaning Up the Cast Bronze Pieces
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Assemblies With Different Patinas

• Eurographics Award

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Thanks to Steve Reinmuth ...

• for creating the beautiful patinas,
• for the fabrication photographs.

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The First 4 Awards to Be Handed Out