JIPCAD Portfolio

JIPCAD Portfolio Charles Cai

Overview

I delved into the use of JIPCAD to create 3D models of my liking, resulting in a variety of unique projects. Some were aesthetically pleasing and interesting patterns, while others took the form of sculptures with geometric properties. I also undertook the replication of artworks by existing artists.

Featured Works

Personally, two most representative pieces among them are Chinese Knot and the Replication of Henry Segerman’s Work. In the process of creating these two pieces, I enthusiastically learned a lot about topology and computer graphics, delving into several papers. Starting with the intriguing yet relatively complex geometric structure of a knot, I gradually built a relatively complex and extensive project.

Other than these two works, SnowFlake and Trefoil Knot Flower are also noteworthy. Here are the works sorted by time order:

• October 13 – October 22, 2023: Snow Flake, Shown in Figure 1

  

  Figure 1: Snow Flake

• October 25 – November 10, 2023: Chinese Knot, Shown in Figure 2

• November 1 – 3, 2023: Torus Knot Flower, Shown in Figure 3

  Figure 2 ChnieseKnot

  Figure 3: TorusKnotFlower

• November 11 – 20, 2023: Replication of Henry Segerman’s Work, Shown in Figure 4

  

  Figure 4: Replication of Henry Segerman’s Work

• March 26 - April 19, 2024: Starman hidden in the trefoil knot（3-fold ’trefoil knot’ Hyperseeing proceedings of the SMI-SCULPT 2024 conference）, Shown in Figure 5. I gave a talk about this project in the SCULPT 2024 in July 2024.

  Figure 5.1 StarmanTrefoil

  Figure 5.2: StarmanTrefoil

• October 15, 2024: The trefoil white rose, Shown in Figure 6

  

  Figure 6: The trefoil white rose

Conclusion and Prospect

As a user and developer of JIPCAD, I pay attention to its shortcomings and areas for improvement. For example, in replicating Henry Segerman’s work, due to the need for certain projection effects that create distinct presentations from different angles, our implementation often involved building the work in a two-dimensional plane from a certain perspective and then altering the third-dimensional coordinates to complete the entire piece. Based on this natural workflow, we aspire to have a projection feature, a consideration I hope to bring to the JIPCAD in the future — looking at issues from both a user’s and a developer’s perspective to enhance the overall user experience.

Github Repository

My Github repository can be accessed via the link(https://github.com/CharlesCai7/JIPCAD_Portfolio).