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Rapid Prototyped Auricular Mold (快速原型模型)

Heavily inspired by the iRSM Digital Design in Facial Prosthetics workshop in Edmonton, Canada this summer, my classmate Lindsay and I conducted a study on rapid prototyping a digitally designed 3-piece auricular prosthesis mold. We utilized an iCAT to obtain DICOM files of our ear casts and patient treatment site. The DICOM files were then imported into Materialise Mimics to mirror the existing ear to adapt to the treatment surface. It was then booleoned from a larger cylinder and digitally […]

Visual Word Form Area (視覺詞形區)

Graphic Design Assignment 5: Concept Communication Piece Purpose: Express the following through type, image, graphic elements, and/or CMYK color. The part of the brain thought to be responsible for processing visual text may not require vision at all, researchers report in the journal Current Biology. This region, known as the visual word form area, processes words when people with normal vision read, but researchers found that it is also activated when the blind read using Braille. Full article [via The New […]

Indirect Plant Defense (間接植物防禦)

Subject: Indirect Plant Defense When a corn plant is munched by a caterpillar, the physical damage and certain chemicals in the caterpillar’s saliva combine to elicit release of volatile compounds from the corn leaf. This attracts parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs in the hapless caterpillars’ bodies. Audience: Children in basic science courses of grade school Media: Animated GIF GIF animation is an excellent way of illustrating a simple concept while adding a real sense of motion to capture the […]

Debbie Goard (黛比高德)

This heart may be more appetizing than the pig hearts my classmates and I purchased for our heart assignment. Started off as a ‘starving artist’ who took a part time job in a bakery, Debbie Goard now single-handedly runs Debbie Does Cakes, a cake design shop which specializes in highly realistic cake sculptures that you have to see to believe. To make such realistic-looking cakes, Debbie spends a lot of time researching the subject, working from only the actual objects or photographs of […]