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Figure 18: ‘Tessagon Bowl’, 2006. Drummond Masterton<br />

3D digital objects are commonly saved as tessellated meshes in the Standard<br />

Triangulation Language (.STL file format). However, usually these triangles or<br />

facets are not visible in the finished object because of setting the export<br />

resolution or by sanding and finishing the object produced. However, craftmaker<br />

Drummond Masterton has been exploring (through the process of CNC<br />

milling) a method that exploits and reasserts this triangulation which can be<br />

painstakingly designed and controlled (Bates, 2007, p.41). Masterton claims<br />

that through this process his one-off dishes and bowls (Figure 18) achieve a level<br />

of uniqueness that comes from the maker rather than the software (Masterton,<br />

2004 and Follett, Moir and Valentine, 2007, p.28).<br />

Figure 19: ‘Airborne Snotty Vase’, 2001. Marcel Wanders<br />

The shape of Marcel Wanders’ ‘Airborne Snotty Vases’ captures the form of<br />

mucus particles expelled during a sneeze with 3D digital scanning. The series<br />

consists of five vases named after five different illnesses: ‘ozaena’, ‘pollinosis’,<br />

‘coryza’ (Figure 19), ‘influenza’ and ‘sinusitis’ which are built in polyamide by<br />

the SLS® process. The vases are commercially available from Cappellini, Italy.<br />

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