David Billings: Assignment 2 Flashlight

Here is a flashlight case modeled in rhino, however as soon as I used the boolean tools it converted it into a polygonal based model rather than a nurbs one. This resulted in a rather dense and undesired meshflow however because it is being 3d printed and nothing else that effect is negligible. For inspiration I wanted to combine organic and hard-surface structures in the design so to accomplish that I have a transition from very structured cube attachments into smoother twisting designs that eventually lead into a row of indented domes.

Here is the flashlight sleeve uploaded to shapeways and ready to order, there were a few spots where it was too thin to print however they were easily fixed by moving the faces.

Here are two shots of the case rendered in keyshot with a white matte plastic material, this is because it would be the intended material it would be printed out of and the lighting used allows it to showcase the organic and hardsurface combinations.

Here is a picture of the final 3D print I received from shapeways.