Every day, nature is evolving and creating various kinds of complex forms with elegance and beauty. Some examples of complex forms include the process by which sea creatures build shells and mushrooms.

The sea mollusk generates the shell to have protection while living. The shell also gets developed in a particular manner, i.e., layer by layer, generating a spiral form with a variety of textures and patterns on it.

It was this idea that was then further developed for doing this project. No other man-made manufacturing process can make such complex 3D forms like nature can. The new RP process develops a prototype in the same manner as that of nature, i.e., by depositing the molten material layer by layer. So the approach of making explorations in 3D letterforms was suggested in order to get some similarity between the natural process and the new technology.

Another attempt was made to produce the prototype with thin walled structures or shell structures so as to know the capability of the RP machine in terms of optimum material utilization.