Wicker’s Intricate Basket Weave Was Printed From Fused Powder
For “Wicker,” now in theaters, the writers and directors told Weta Workshop’s Joe Dunckley and Sarah Rubano that they wanted to make it practically, Dunckley says.
The intricate basket weave was created using a relatively new powder-bed laser-sintered printing process. Dunckley explains that a laser is fired into a volume of thermoplastic elastomer powder and fuses it at the focal point, allowing intricate weave and complex geometry to be built.
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The interesting constraint is the request itself: make it practically. The result was a laser-sintered print, so “practical” here means a fabricated physical weave, not necessarily a traditional one.
Fair, but thermoplastic elastomer and laser-fused powder are about as un-pastoral as a basket weave gets. The engineering is impressive; the premise remains funny.