Object Design and Fabrication - Nadia

This week I searched my house for inspiration for my next project. I have always really liked Mandela patterns, so I have some examples of that based on my decorating preferences. My favourite pattern of the ones below is the ceramic tile. My mom got it in Greece and I love its detail and radial pattern.  This pillow has a lot of flower and organic shapes that I would like to pull into my own pattern. I also like how the dots guide your eyes around the pattern. The floor in the lego building is something I would consider using to separate much smaller Mandela or flower-like patterns, to give my whole pattern a tiled effect. The flowers and dots are more inspiration within the Mandela pattern. The calendar and scrapbook above have colour palettes I like, as well as more examples of radial patterning. This is the tile I mentioned at the start of the post. It looks very active, which I find to be very visually interesting. I also really like the colours of this tile. This shower curta...

 For the first assignment of OBDF 210, I created a sandcastle. I used tools such as Loft, ExtrudeCrv, Mirror, and Rotate to create the castle. It was a great continuation of last semester since I finished last year making a castle as well. To finish the assignment I used some different materials in the renders to show a more realistic sandcastle. Here are a few different renders of the sandcastle: This is the view mode I built the castle in, shaded. This is the colour rendered version of my sandcastle and the sandbox it is in. I also added a shovel. The following two photos are in the same render mode from other angles. This is the artistic render mode, which I have never used before, but really like. Finally, this is the ghosted render mode which helps show the castle from a straight-on view without only seeing the walls. This assignment was a great reintroduction to Rhino. I initially had a hard time remembering all the features within different commands, but once I got past that...