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Papercraft Object Process 2

 First I scaled up my apple in Rhino to what I felt was an appropriate size. I’ve decided now that I want to try something larger, but the size I set it to for this prototype was about two inches in diameter. 





I bought colored card stock and separated each unwrapped layer in order to print. Then I discovered that my printer would not print on card stock and a trip to Staples was just as unsuccessful. So, I didn’t know how to proceed. I decided to just make an accurately scaled prototype of this type, having to try again in color on the next one. I’m still unsure how to approach the differently colored sections.




I tried to trace the patterns from plain card stock onto the different colors, but my tracing paper didn’t leave much of a mark and was imprecise. I have to experiment with cutting out individual sections of the apple to attach to the rolled and taped version or finding some way to print on colored card stock.  








So far I’m mostly satisfied with this prototype, but I need to fix a few things. I need to find a better way to attach the stem to the apple and the leaf to the stem. I hadn’t considered the difficult shape of those areas for long on my original model. I’m also going to rescale a few individual sections, such as the interior of the apple’s cross-section. I need it a little larger.

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