莫里森夫妇设计的立方体风筝看起来似乎很笨重，但是它仍然能够像普通风筝那样自由、稳定地飘扬于空中。
立方体风筝包含了23000多个独立的元件，全部由最新进的轻型材料制成。
“闪亮小人”尽管是一件艺术品，但它也能够飞翔于空中。
“闪亮小人”采用了轻型材料和对称的模型
这个立方体风筝采用一种双翼模型，呈蜂窝状结构，看起来好似一个笨重的庞然大物无法飞行。
“闪亮小人”的设计灵感来自于美国著名发明家亚历山大-格拉汉姆-贝尔所发明的脂鲤风筝。威尔士两位艺术家近日利用3D打印机、最先进的轻型材料等研制出一个八立方英尺大的立方体风筝，而且更为神奇的是，这种风筝竟然可以真正地飞向天空。
海瑟-莫里森和伊万-莫里森夫妇来自威尔士，他们夫妇俩所打造的神奇风筝是根据美国著名发明家亚历山大-格拉汉姆-贝尔所发明的脂鲤风筝改进而来。这种看起来似乎很笨重的立方体采用了最先进的轻型材料和经过3D打印机印刷的尼龙连接器，因此尽管包含了23000多个独立的元件，但是它仍然能够像普通风筝那样自由、稳定地飘扬于空中。
据介绍，这款风筝名叫“闪亮小人”，主要部件包括碳纤维棒、手工缝制的帆船布以及一种经过特别设计及3D印刷的尼龙连接器。在作品的研制过程中，两位艺术家还得到了建筑设计师萨沙-雷丁和伯明翰市“Queen & Crawford”织物设计工作室的大力支持
“闪亮小人”的结构相当复杂。
整个结构的研制花费了数月时间，其中最重要的一个程序就是三维打印。
“闪亮小人”将在艺术馆中展出其梦幻般的艺术效果。
结构中小型的三角形元件呈30度角展开，组成一个紧密结合的立方体。
由于采用了轻型材料和对称的模型，因此它可以自由、稳定地飞翔于空中。
从概念设计到完工，整个艺术品的研制共花费16个月时间。莫里森夫妇以擅长组装艺术品而著称，他们经常将各种极新潮的材料组合于一起，设计出许多神奇的艺术品。这个立方体风筝采用一种双翼模型，呈蜂窝状结构，看起来好似一个笨重的庞然大物无法飞行。结构中小型的三角形元件呈30度角展开，组成一个紧密结合的立方体。不过，由于采用了轻型材料和对称的模型，因此它可以自由、稳定地飞翔于空中。
莫里森介绍说，“当我们首次将它拿到海滩上时，你能够感受到风筝已经有了生命。我们在沙滩上拖它时，它也会扭曲和翻滚。当风开始将它慢慢托起时，竟然越飞越高，最后一阵大风将它带向高高的天空。我们用了数月时间设计和研制这个立方体。”
在设计“闪亮小人”风筝过程中，莫里森夫妇和合作方也遇到了许多挑战和困难。为了达到飞行的要求，这种结构必须要尽可能的牢固，更要尽可能地轻，此外还要求最后从天空降落时损伤减小到最小。碳纤维棒和手工缝合织物能够完美地实现这一要求，即强度和重量。“Queen & Crawford”织物设计工作室设计了一种通用的尼龙连接系统“CKJ_01”，该系统可以将每一个部件完美地组合在一起英国威尔士的两位艺术家使用3D打印机制作了一个精美立方体风筝，能够在空中自由飞翔。
英国威尔士艺术家希瑟和伊凡-莫里森设计的精美立方体风筝是基于亚历山-格雷厄姆-贝尔(电话发明者)设计的泰特拉风筝，当时贝尔是参与有人驾驶飞行设计比赛，但是该立方体风筝采用先进轻重量材料制成，其中包括3D打印机制作的尼龙连接器，从而使23000个连接器连接在一起，像失重状态一样漂浮在空中。
这款风筝被命名为“闪亮小男人，是由碳纤维棒(这是一种用于游艇帆手工制造复合纤维材料)和特殊设计的3D打印尼龙连接器制成，该雕塑结构设计委托由奢华风格设计师丹达拉设计，他在建筑设计师萨什·雷丁和伯明翰市创造设计工作室女王&克劳福德共同设计完成。莫里森擅长于装置艺术组件设计，最新设计的立方体风筝是采用双翼模型，累积排放该模型将其排列在一个紧密蜂窝状结构中，形成一个貌似质量较重无法飞行的物体。
小型三角状结构张开角度为30度，成千上万个三角状结构组合在一起形成黄铁矿的几何结构。使用轻重量材料，基于模型和材料的对称性，它能够自由稳定地在空中飞翔。
目前，这个立方体风筝悬挂在英国泽西郡圣海里尔市丹达拉城堡码头小区的前厅，它既可作为一个永久性雕塑，也可作为一个能够飞行的风筝，每年它将从前厅展览处取下在圣奥宾海湾进行试飞。莫里森说：“当我们首次将这个风筝带到沙滩上，它仿佛赋予了生命，变得活跃了起来，它希望在沙滩上翻滚。伴随着风力，这种风筝缓慢地升到空中，直到一阵风将风筝的尾部吹起，整个风筝在海滩上晃荡着漂浮起来。站在这里观看这个花费了数月时间设计和建造的复合体风筝，能够升空的确是一个惊人的创举！我认为贝尔在其早期实验中一定试飞成功，当时是令人真实惊讶和具有乐观性的。”
莫里森称，他们和合作者在完成这款风筝设计中曾遇到了诸多的挑战。这个风筝为了能够在空中飞行必须足够结实，且质地较轻，但是它必须以最低损害性安全返回地面，因此它被组装成一个雕塑结构。碳纤维棒和立方体纤维可实现完美的强度和重量组合，这种织物材料风筝所产生的视觉冲击形成缥渺状太空深度以及折射出貌似较重质量的物体可以轻盈地漂浮在空中。
创造设计工作室女王&克劳福德设计了一个通用尼龙连接系统----CKJ_01，能够处理该风筝的每一个连接部分。他们与纽伯里市3TRPD公司紧密合作，该公司拥有快速原型设计行业的先进技术，能够在短时间内依据设计打印连接部件，以及测试和精加工。创造设计工作室女王&克劳福德主管马修-赫金博托姆说：“现代设计和制造技术打开了一具有无限可能性的世界！我们的设计理念是形成数字模型，然后仅用数个小时打印出立体结构。一旦该优雅结构风筝能够在空中真实飞行，这种科幻小说类型的风筝在空中自由飞翔将成为事实。”
Two artists have 3D printed a kite that can actually fly.
Wales-based artists Heather and Ivan Morison's deceptively heavy looking cube is based on the tetra kites developed by Alexander Graham Bell in the race towards manned flight.
But it has been realised with cutting edge lightweight material - including 3D printed nylon connectors - allowing its 23,000 individual components to float across the sky as if weightless.
Appearances can be deceptive: Heather and Ivan Morison's Little Shining Man sculpture looks heavy, but can be flown as a kite
Lightweight: The sculpture has been assembled from 23,000 individual components made from cutting-edge lightweight materials
Double meaning: Little Shining Man is intended as an installation artwork, but will be taken once a year to the beach at St Aubin's Bay and flown
The Little Shining Man kite is made from carbon fibre rods, a hand-made composite fabric normally used for yacht sails and specially designed, 3-D printed nylon connectors.
The sculpture, commissioned by luxury property developers Dandara, was created in collaboration with architectural designer Sash Reading and Birmingham-based fabrication design studio Queen & Crawford.
The Morisons are well-known for their installation art pieces, which combine futuristic materials and design to create lavish spectacles.
The design of the structure takes a double wing module, duplicates it and arranges it into a tight, cellular structure that appears as a heavy unflyable mass.
Small triangular units have been opened out by 30 degrees and multiplied up into colliding cubes that take their shape from naturally occurring geometric forms of the mineral Pyrite.
However, using lightweight materials and the symmetry of the module and composition, it is able to fly freely and steadily.
Ethereal: The design of Little Shining Man takes a double wing module, duplicates it and arranges it into a tight, cellular structure that appears as a heavy unflyable mass
Provenance: The design was inspired by the tetra kites developed by Alexander Graham Bell in the race towards manned flight
The kite flown in the images is one section of an arrangement of three, that come together to create the final piece which is hanging in the atrium of Dandara's Castle Quay development in St. Helier, Jersey.
It is intended both as a permanent piece of sculpture and a working kite, and once a year it will be taken down from its display to be flown in nearby St Aubin's bay.
Mr Morison said: 'When we first took it out onto the beach you could feel the sculpture come alive; it wanted to twist and tumble as we took it across the sands.
'As the wind took hold it rose slowly, bobbing just above our reach, until a gust caught its sails and lifted way up above us.
'Standing there, watching this complex form that had taken us months to plan and build, rise high up into the sky was truly breathtaking. We felt as Bell must have in his early experiments into flight – a time of true wonder and optimism.'
Complex: The Little Shining Man kite is one section of an arrangement of three which come together to create the whole sculpture
Challenges: The whole structure took months to build, but the process was helped by three-dimensional printing processes
Dramatic: The finished piece will be on display in the atrium of Dandara's Castle Quay development in St. Helier, Jersey
Crystalline: Small triangular units have been opened out by 30 degrees and multiplied up into colliding cubes that take their shape from naturally occurring geometric forms of the mineral Pyrite
The Morisons said there were several challenges they and their collaborators faced in designing the Little Shining Man.
The structure had to be as strong and light as possible in order to fly, but had to return to earth with minimal damage so it could be installed as a piece of sculpture, they say.
Carbon fibre rod and Cuben fibre, a hand made composite fabric used primarily in racing yacht sails, achieved the perfect combination of strength and weight.
The visual impact of the fabric produces an ethereal sense of depth and refraction that gives the heavy mass the lightest touch.
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Schematic: Using lightweight materials and the symmetry of the module and composition, Little Shining Man is able to fly freely and steadily
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Plans: The whole artwork took 16 months from concept to completion
Queen & Crawford designed a universal nylon joint system, the CKJ_01, that would handle every connection in the composition.
They worked closely with 3TRPD in Newbury who are at the cutting edge of the Rapid Prototyping Industry. Printing the joints allowed design, production, testing and refinement in a short time frame.
Queen & Crawford's director, Matthew Higginbottom, said: 'Modern design and manufacturing technologies open up an infinite world of possibility.
'Our ideas are sketched, digitally modeled and physically printed in the space of just hours.
'The science fiction of our youth is a reality and Little Shining Man shows us this; at once elegant sculpture and robust flying structure.'
据英国《每日邮报》1月18日报道，英国艺术家希瑟・莫里森和伊万・莫里森夫妇与创意制作工作室Queen & Crawford、建筑设计师萨沙・雷丁共同合作制作出了一个巨型3D风筝，并成功进行了试飞。风筝主体由碳纤维棒和手工制作的混合布料构成，全部使用 3D技术打印制作的尼龙连接器进行连接，外表看上去十分庞大笨重，但飞起来却非常轻盈。
风筝主体由碳纤维棒和手工制作的混合布料构成，并全部使用3D技术打印制作的尼龙连接器进行连接。
风筝的主体由2.3万片碳纤维和粗苯纤维制成的三角形零件组成。
莫里森夫妇在前卫艺术品设计制作方面一直成就卓著，声名显赫。此次，他们受房地产开发公司Dandara委托，历时16个月设计制作出了这款巨型3D风筝。风筝的主体由2.3万片碳纤维和粗苯纤维制成的三角形零件组成，每2个零件间都由3D立体打印技术制作出来尼龙连接器连接成为一个30度立体配件。设计师最后会将所有立体配件逐个拼接，组成一个巨型的立方体。
“我们使用的材料都非常轻薄耐用，因此虽然风筝外表看上去体积庞大，但实际上它很轻。当我们第一次看着它轻盈地飞上天空时，感觉那画面真的美极了。”莫里森先生介绍说，“如果作为一件雕塑品这个风筝被陈列在展览室，它其中包含的层次丰富的几何图案也散发着灵动的气息，从各个角度欣赏都会带给你不同的享受。”
据悉，此次试飞的这个“大块头立方体”只是这款巨型3D风筝的其中一部分。最终的成品风筝将由3块同样的立方体组成，它组装完毕后将被放置在 Dandara房地产开发公司于泽西岛建设的城堡码头上作为艺术雕塑进行展示，并且每年将会有一次机会被拆卸下来在附近的圣奥宾海湾放飞。
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