Milestone Projects

This is my final post for the semester. It was pretty crazy to do everything online, and despite that, I still learned a lot of new things about Rhino. Hopefully, we can all be back in the Thing Tank next year!

Castle:

The first project of the semester was to create a castle using some basic extrusion tools in Rhino. I forgot how to do a few things over the summer, so it was a good reintroduction to Rhino. I made a sandcastle because I wanted to practice using materials on different objects again.

Surface Design Study:

For the second milestone project, I made a 2D pattern based on a Greek tile. It was my first time using polar arrays and arrays, as well as hatching. I was really happy with how it turned out, but it was definitely challenging, as it was mostly organic shapes. I did get really comfortable using the curve building tools, which helped me a lot in the next project.

Reverse Engineered Object:

For the third milestone project, I recreated my recorder in Rhino. I started by taking a lot of tiny measurements along the side of the recorder than I made it in 2D (it was a lot of curves, which is why I was glad I was used to making them) after that I revolved the shapes. The reed and the top of the recorder were the hardest to make since they had to have matching curved surfaces and perfectly shaped holes to fit together.

Outsourced Wearable Object:

For the final milestone project, I made a roller coaster ring that can be produced through shapeways.com. I based the design on the loop at Calaway Park. It was a bit weird to create a ring the spirals around the finger since it was harder to make sure the diameter stayed correct as the tracks go around. After I finished the design I checked the wall thickness in Shapeways and went back and forth with the design until it was all green. I am supposed to have a link to my shop on Shapeways, but since I haven't bought anything from them I couldn't make it public, so I took a few screenshots instead.

This is what the product page looks like:

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2D Surface Design in Rhino

This week I made a 2D design in Rhino using some photos of patterns I found around my house last week. I was inspired by a tile from Greece and a pillow from Ikea the most. I liked their organic designs and colour palettes. Here is a photo of both of them: Here is the photo of a tiled lego floor that I used as inspiration for the separates between each tile. Once in Rhino, I used ArrayCrv and ArrayPolar to make a radial design inside a square. I also used a new curved line tool, called InterpCrv, which made it easier to make organic shapes then previous line tools I have used. It is definitely one of my new favourite tools in Rhino. After I was done making the linework I used the tool Hatch to fill in the shapes with colour. It took a long time to find an efficient way to pick colours and keep consistency. I kept typing in the RGB code over and over again. I don't know if there is a better way to do that. Once I was done the colour of the individual tiles I copied it until it was ...

Parametric Furniture: Renders

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Sandcastle

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...

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