Chris Jordan: Project 2- FlashLight Sleeve

For the flashlight sleeve assignment I went through a number of iterations including an example that was shot through with holes but for the final version I went with a mesh simpler than that.

rejected version

Reference Images

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The final version, which would be more likely to be able to be printed, is alot more simple.  Using a combination of the cylinder tool and booliean operations I created the base sleeve. This was further embelished by creating an ellipsis and extruding it through the base sleeve and creating a duplicate that was rotated 90 degrees then each ellipsised cylinder was differanced out of the slieve.  Small cylinders were added in the space inbetween the cutouts with toruses further framing the ellipsises, additional toruses were added to support the base and to accent the 'funnel' of the sleeve.

Maya Wireframe (stl file into maya)

Ghosted orthographic view

Flashlight Sleeve Layers

Flashlight Sleeve Edge Analysis

Keyshot Renders

The Keyshot materials used were a black rubber material on the toruses and cylinders to give is the sense of a rubber gripping material. The main body of the sleeve is a plastic looking seafoam green while the faux flashlight body is a red shiny galvinized metal material to differentiate the sleeve and the flashlight itself.  The postioning of the mesh is to emulate what positions that the flashlight would be found in daily life, on its side or on its funnel the lighting of the environment is reflective to the positioning of the sleeve, i.e. it is darker if the sleeve is on its funnel on it side the environment is brighter in tone with the lightest tone near the sleeve.
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The sleeve has been printed at the UTD Technology Store for $10. Here is an order page from Shapeways to prove the  validity of the design.

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Photos of 3d prints