Development

 Development of the Olympic Cauldron

what the abstract pieces mean ?

They represent lots of principles the Olympics stand for being: Cohesion, spirit, equality, the future, dynamic, respect and skill. Pier De Coubertin said the games aren't about winning but taking part and I wanted this abstract detail to showcase this. 

Stages in making

1. I put them into groups of 4 and 3 the group of 4 was for the bottom layer and the group of 3 was the second layer.
2. A glue gun was used to stick each individual piece together at the base
3. I tried to make the glue unconscious as possible to the eye
4. A circular base I made was glued to a piece of foam board to support the structure
5. I glued the row of 3 to the base, did this 5 times
6. I then glued the row of 3 the same way to create the top

Authors own - all the pieces in line in the correct order of assembly

Authors own - before Glueing the other 2 surfaces

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Authors own  I had to use a base just as extra support.

Authors own  the first half fabricated together 

Authors own - before building higer

Authors own - birds eye view

 Analysis 

What aspect of your work were you not so happy with ?

My design is fun and creative but the pieces don't have much surface area to physically join them via, they are curved which makes joining really tricky, what I've come up with is joining them by the hip ad this still isn't 100%. 

What worked well?

The shape made was Thomas Heatherwick like due to it having a message, the message being respect for one another and cohesion of people to work together and to compete together as one.

What could be improved next time?

The shape is far too limp I will have to alter that before I make the real thing.

CAD FOR THE OLYMPIC MEDALS IN PROGRESS 

Authors own - finished 3D design file showing the RED cut lines and the BLUE engrave lines 

This is the final CAD drawing, the whole process was fairly lengthy this was mainly because the Rio tm font is not available for use so I had to redraw the B shape and copy and paste it into the design. When engraving the B pattern it needed to be thick enough to when spray painted or gilded it still shows, the line thickness of the blue was 1/2 .  This is the same for the lettering "Rio2016" this was my best copy of the font.

Authors own- This is a zoomed in picture and it really show the detail I added to this medal

The picture shows the level of intricate detail planned out to precision to make sure it fits perfectly inside the perimeter of the circle. The layers are also evident here, the Rings are layered over the statue, to do this I made sure the laser cut out the rings, I then glued them back in to solve this problem.

Authors own, showing back and front 

Sporting events are often numbered using Roman numerals. The Athens Olympics in 2004, the 28th games in modern times, were called the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, showing that it is the 28th games of the modern era since the first in 1896. The 2006 Winter Games in Torino, Italy will be the XX Winter Games; they began in 1924 and were in the same year as the Summer games until 1992. Beijing will be the XXIX Olympiad in 2008 and the 2012 Games won by London will be the XXX Olympiad. When counting Olympic Games the ones cancelled during war in 1916, 1940, and 1944 are included.

Authors own this stage was putting the lettering behind the imagery 

 This picture above shows the struggle of getting the letter B to fit inside the perimeter of the circle this meant one by one moving and shuffling the letters inside.

It wasn't as easy as copy or paste each on the outside was individually turned to fit. The next stage was to make sure there were no letters inside the shape of Christ, deleting one by one cleared this out of the image. The finished product is shown 2 pictures above.