How do you make an out-of-door carving look like rain metallic element ? Here ’s how London designer / clothes designer / artist Thomas Heatherwick did it when creating this 100 - foot - gamy sculpture for the Wellcome Trust construction in London :
1 . Poured molten metal into pee , creating a 2 - inch blob .
2 . Used a 3 - D face scanner from a nearby infirmary to digitize the blob .
3 . Created glass beads allot to coordinates assigned by the digital scanner ’s modeling program .
4 . Hung the beads on 26,732 steel wires held together by bantam metal springs . Image by Gaetan Lee
Thomas HeatherwickviaWired
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