Sowmya Rajendran: Project 6: Lamp

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Week 11:

For the lamp project, I took my waffle model and edited the basic shape just a bit by elongating the structure and Boolean Unioning some more spheres into the model as well. I wanted to keep some of the characteristics of the lotus flower, but also infuse the layered elements from a beehive structure, similar to the one pictured below.

Source

Final Model

First, I made a bounding box around the model to use as a guide to create the radial waffles. Then, I switched to the top view and used the section command and OSNAP (end, near) to slice the model equally. I then used the contour command to slice the lamp model horizontally to create the other waffles needed for support. Using the planar curve command, I then converted the curves into surfaces.

Model sliced radially and horizontally.

Afterwards, I used the intersection and pipe command to create the ribs.  I used the unroll script to create the layout for laser cutting. After properly laying out the section pieces, I had to create the hole for the snap-in lamp socket cord. I used the circle curve tool to create a 1'' hole on the bottom most section piece. Then I created some rectangles and duplicated those around the curve using the array polar command. Another curve was added around the 1'' hole and then the curve boolean tool was used to eliminate the extra pieces. This in turn yielded a hole where a light bulb could be easily fitted within.  

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Week 12:

I had to prepare my model with a light bulb and a wire for rendering. I downloaded a free light bulb model from Archive3D and created the wire extension by using the Control Point Curve tool  and the Pipe tool.

Layers all set up and ready for rendering!

I used a Clear Rough Plastic material with a pinkish tint for the outer shell, a Rubber material for the wire, a Warm Area Light (Lumen setting) for the bulb, and an Anodized Metal material for the screw cap.

Here is a rendering of the lamp conceptualized in an interior space.

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Week 13:

Finally got my parts cut out this week! I had to take some of the pieces out so that I could put in the light bulb. It's much more functional now! The lamp can function as either a hanging lamp or table lamp.