Quasicrystalline Ceramics
Rima Ajlouni

Proceedings of Bridges 2021: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 289–292
Short Papers

Abstract

The emerging digital and fabrication technologies are transforming the way in which material culture is conceived and crafted. Most notably, ceramic 3D printing technologies offer new paradigms for creative exploration and research, enabling the fabrication of complex shapes that are extremely challenging to achieve using traditional methods. This paper designs and tests the fabrication of ceramic jewelry with complex perforated shapes. Specifically, it utilizes a new structural approach to derive design variations with icosahedral quasicrystalline geometry. The new approach provides a direct three-dimensional visual representation of icosahedral quasicrystals, enabling the use of different fabrication strategies and eliminating a major roadblock for researchers especially in the artistic fields. It is worth noting that this approach was originally written for an audience of chemists and physicists and later adapted to make jewelry.

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