This project is a collaboration between my colleagues and I at Stanford under the advisory of Professor Justin Leidwanger and students at Brock University under the advisory of professor elizabeth greene. It involves analyzing ancient cargoes and shipwrecks in the mediterranean under the ongoing Project 'U Mari and Marzamemi maritime heritage project. Using rhinoceros 3D software, we have been modeling various amphora types using their 2d sketches, and experimenting with Stacking patterns in order to optimize their stacking efficiencies to analyze how cargo loads such as amphoras were transported and dealt with in the ancient mediterranean.
Step 1: Sketching, revolving, and sweeping
Here is an example of an amphora sketch. The black trace on the left hand side of the drawing is what we trace over before revolving. to the left of the black traced handle is the cross section which we must sweep throughout the handle.
outer radii sketching:
Basically, we must outline the outer and inner radii of the amphora before revolving.
outer radii sketching close-up
Handle Sketching:
Handle sketching involves outlining the rails of the handles from the sketch, and then sweeping the rails correctly with the correct orientation of the cross section. This is the trickiest part of sketching process.
Finished Sample single amphora model with handles
Step 2: Stacking
We use rhino's o-snap features to stack the amphoras adjacently.
Square Stack pattern on the Kapitan 2 Amphora (No spacing)
Another No spacing stacking pattern. Note that for this amphora in the square and hexagonal stacking patterns, the third layers are not able to sink down that far into the second layer. This is one of many indications that a spaced out pattern might be better suited.
Here are examples of spaced-out patterns conducted on the africana 1 piccolo amphora type.
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