ALEX TERZICH
terzich@gmail.com

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UNDERGRADUATE

Les Heures Claires
Minneapolis Light Rail Transit
Object-Abject

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One Fold Hot Pink
Finnish Embassy
Branded Office Space
Subjected Pythagoragraph
Meganamorphosis
World Trade Center
Earle Brown Elementary School
Andrew Zago Drawing Workshop

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Escaping Flatland
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New Typographics
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  Escaping Flatland
University of Minnesota
3D Modeling Demonstration
Fall 2002


The title for this short lecture and demonstration was borrowed from a chapter by Edward Tufte. The intent was to demonstrate how 3D modeling programs enable the physical production of the forms they describe. Using Rhino, Shawn Keltner modeled a complex undulating form that was output in foam on a CNC milling machine. I used FormZ to model, unfold, and rebuild a form that couldn't be adequately described with traditional plan and elevation drawings.

The image on the right is from Technical Drawing by Frederick Giesecke and Alva Mitchell. It shows the technique of unfolding a solid, as well as how multiple views can be unfolded and represented simultaneously.

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