Lantern Revamp

^Animated Gifs of the lantern in action. Click to view motion.

I revamped the lantern model in Grasshopper as my submission to the IES Luminaire design competition.  As I move forward, the final physical prototype will be made of a more flexible material than the heavyweight paper that I used previously. I will experiment with color for the two layers of petals.

To make my digital model more robust, I made the Lotus “petals” responsive to the position of the sun. Of course, the lantern would likely be static, but I wanted to continue to expand on my skills with Heliotrope in Grasshopper. I like how the petals open and close in response to the sun’s position, but a further challenge would be making them curled like in the physical model.