Category Wheat

On February 12th I finally print all 41 seed of the wheat seedpod. The yellow portion measures 40″ tall and 8″ across. This is at a scale of 1:16. The 1.5″ SCH40 pipe has an outside diameter of 1.91″. The…

Here we are exploring the idea of creatig the wheat seedpods in 3d printed ASA plastic and finished them in gold leaf.

This opportunity is ideal for either the Tall Grasses or the Wheat sculptures. With the Grass ready to propose, this post explores what would be needed to get the Wheat ready for the application process.

One of the issues we always have to deal with is size. The wheat sculptures have to be large enough to become cultural icons but manageable in terms of engineering, installation and budget. And when building on spec, we don't know what kind of environment they will occupy.

I first built this wheat form in Fusion 360 intending to send them to the 3d printer. I had to modify the CAD model a bit to get them ready to be rendered for proposals.

This post talks about the how the wheat idea came about and how were are pursuing it.

Here we are exploring a 16' version of the Wheat sculpture. One of the best ways to know if it will work is to just do it, down and dirty. You get to see all the issues that need to be resolved.