Investigation of 3D Printed Violins

✏️ Write this section yourself What drew you to this question? What gap in research or personal curiosity drove the thesis? What were your specific hypotheses — about stiffness, density, damping, resonance? What would it mean if it worked?

✏️ Write this section yourself This was a solo thesis. Describe how you scoped the project, found your methodology, and managed it from start to finish. What mentorship or resources did you draw on? What decisions were fully yours to make?

✏️ Write this section yourself Walk through your process in stages: (1) material testing on printed samples — what properties did you measure and how? (2) retopology of the 3D model in Blender — what challenges did the geometry present? (3) how you iterated across three violin designs based on findings. Describe the impact hammer test rig you designed and built — how it works and what data it captured.

✏️ Write this section yourself What did the frequency response data reveal? How did the 3D printed violins compare to wooden ones acoustically? What correlations did you find between material properties and sound output? What were the limitations of your study and what future work would you recommend?