Objects, Let's Go!!

For our upcoming assignment, we've been ask to choose an object to digitally remodel. We are to pick something that has several pieces and is preferably dissectible. I wanted to work with something that would challenge me, without being too overwhelming. The selection process proved to be pretty challenging all on it's own. Trying to find something that had many parts, and that someone hasn't done before. I finally found a piece that I think will be challenging and has enough parts for me to model. It's an object I feel I could recreate exactly, and if I were to ever print my model, it should work just the same way. This is a miniature bicycle made of iron and wood. It was a piece left behind from when my house was on the market and being staged for showings. I thought it was pretty cool so it continues to live up on the book shelf. When I had first picked it up I thought it would be stationary because it was made of metal but I was wrong....

For this week's assignment we were asked to create a 2D pattern using inspiration from patterns we found in our everyday lives. I chose to look at items like furniture. I tried to use similar motifs from the bowl, along with something more playful like the first chair above. The result was what I'm calling a "petal". I drew the curves with the HandleCrv tool and then drew the circles individually. I tried to use Array but I wanted different sizes. What's the best way to do this? Then I added a some more petals to create a pinwheel, along with more circles to fill in some gaps. After duplicating and flipping my pinwheel, I created some abstract forms to fill in the centre. When I created the first piece for the centre, I flipped it and it wouldn't fit. I realized this had to do with how I mirrored the two pinwheels. I had to flip the pinwheel on the same line as the centre piece. Next I started to add colou...

This week, we were asked to use basic functions in Rhino 5 to create an original castle. We used commands such as Polygon and Extrude to create 3D forms. For my castle, I began with a small watchtower. I made several more watchtowers and connected them with a tunnel system.  For the castle, I began with a foundation and though tit should have a few steps. I began to explore some shapes to create the body of the castle. I experimented with a sort of tunnel system that led to the second floor. I also started to make windows for the third floor and really liked with happened with the extrusions. I decided to leave the "balconies". I added several cylinder of varying sizes and heights to create the rest of the castle. Some of them intersect and I difficulties trying to split or trim the extra pieces. I had never create a dome-like surface before in this program and thought this the perfect opportunity to try it! Here is the final result. ...