Paige Brown: Week 7 Waffle Construction Vessel

 

I had hoped to create a lamp based off a fish bowl design. Circular in form with a paper tube inserted through the center to decorate the bowl with images of fish and aquatic decor.

I initally thought we had to plan the waffle structure itself so I looked up images of waffle construction to help with planning. It wasn't needed in the end but planning it out didn't hurt either.

The model with layers shown.

I created the model by mostly using booleans.

 I started with an upright cylander and intersected two horizontal cylanders and used booleanDifference to create the base. I used the same method to create the socket hole but with a smaller upright cylander.
I used booleanSplit to seperate the long cylander I used to make the base and made the upper half the paper tube inside.

The bowl was made using a sphere that I used booleanDifference on to flatten the top and bottom along with the inside.

Overall, it was simple to create.

The lamp was physically built using birch plywood and a combanation of loctite and hot glue. The paper tube was set inside after the socket and bulb were installed.

Paige Brown: Week 4 Serial Sliced Sculpture of Original Design

Concept:

I went through two different concepts, the first being a spork, but eventally settled on a fantasy penguin design. It is partially a penguin inspired design along with the neck of a goose and the tail and beak of a toy rubber duck.

I designed it to be on the somewhat smaller side to reduce cutting costs and material needed. I designed it to be simple because it would lose a lot of detail serial sliced because it is small.

Creation:

I was running short on time so I attempted to create the bulk of model in Maya. Admittedly I'm not very skilled in that program either so I did what I could in hopes I could make the finished product look better than the model itself. I largely created a sphere and extruded from the geometry created. However I did create the legs in Rhino with a control point curve and used the revolve command to create geometry around an axis.

Some assembly images:

Materials:

.25 cardboard sheet, Loctite, newspaper, Mod Podge, and spraypaint

I wanted the surface smooth since I didn't think the paint would show up well on corrugated cardboard. So I covered the surface with paper mache much like a pinata. The legs were fairly flimsy so dowel rods were inserted roughly halfway through the body from the feet giving it weight and stability.

I chose matte black spraypaint and semi gloss white spraypaint for the body and painted the eyes with enamel craft paints.