Carol Newhard Polyhedra week 11

My polyhedra was inspired by an amathest ring that I saw a few years ago. The jewel in the ring was very large and rounded with no facets on top. I created the patern for this model using Vinyl Express Sign making software and then I pulled it into Rhino and put in the layers and saved it for lazer cutting.

The techniques I used were geometric shapes welded together and then I exploded them in Rhino and put them to gether with dashed lines as shown in several Polyhedra examples on the internet. After having it laser cut I glued the joints and painted it with 3 coats of spray paint to get a gloosy appearance.

Carol Newhard Week 10 Laser Cutting Flat Fab Heart Table

My concept was to have a table that used heart shapes. The top of the table is a heart with a curl at the point. I didn't save my flat fab geometry so I placed the table in a poolside setting with photoshop. The photo at the below shows my assembled model.

This table was created so that it can be used either way, with the points facing upwards or facing down. If I created this table in a life size format I would use mahagany with a glossy varnish.

Nikki C: Laser Engraved Skateboard

Concept: I was just looking up designs on how to use the blend tool and I came across this tutorial to make flowers using the pen and blend tools and liked the idea so I used that process to create my flowers

Process: I used Adobe Illustrator and the pen, blend, ellipse, pattern, rotate and text tools to create the original design for this board

Materials: I used a Blank Decks Warning Skateboard Deck from Amazon and then got it laser engraved at the Machine Shop.

Nikki C: 3D Scan

Context: I found this starfish I had and I liked it.
Process: I accidentally broke a leg off of it which helped it stand so I did 2 360 scans and aligned them and then cleaned up the scans in RapidWorks and then brought the scans into Keyshot and photoshop and fixed up the matching and lighting.
Materials: I used a clay starfish I had and the NextEngine Scanner with ScanStudio, RapidWorks, Keyshot and Photoshop

Marvin Robinson Lasercut

Concept: Had an idea to create a space ship and that was inspired by the whales and I thought to myself that whales are rarely alone so why not create a fleet of whale ships.

Processes: The process involved using Flat-Fab where the model was built procedural as a 3D figure then output into Rhino to refine edges and properly layer objects to be proceed and cut by a laser to have clean cross sections. Once the process of laser cutting is finished the piece is constructed by hand exactly how it was imaged in a Flatlab.  

Materials: The materials use were cardboard for rapid prototyping and cost effective assembly.

3D scanning Project- Paige S Ramos

Originally, my partner Carol and I were going to scan a miniature toy bear, but we decided on something more simpler. She and I decided to take a rock from the UTD campus landscaping.

As I gotten the .obj file back, I new what to base my rendering on. Since I am a big Marvel fan, having recently seen Endgame-- I decided to base my render on the power stone. One of my favorite infinity stones. It first appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy.

After taking it through Keyshot, I decided to make the rendered rock purple, like the infinity stone it self, giving some jewel lighting, and making sure it looks shiny enough like a gem itself. Then I made sure it was huge in size, and levitates. Giving it an out-of-this-world fell to it, and placed it next to a Mexican temple within Photoshop.

Laser Cut Skateboard-Paige S Ramos

Inspiration:

My brother has different kinds of skateboards that he buys on occasion. Having a variety of different styles, from different artists. I decided to take my own variation of these different types of styles, and create my own.

Process:

I drew this on my art program and did a full on sketch of it on Auto-desk Sketch Book Pro. Making sure to have extra detail in the woman's hair and even in her eyes as well. Even her lips has scoring in the picture as well.

After I was done with it, I transferred it into an .ai file and sent it into the machine shop here on campus.

Unfortunately, once it was done, some of the scoring that I had done didn't come out nor did the extra detail I had in the original image was transferred onto he board it self. Even if so, I am very proud of how it still came out, and how it has a holographic effect. I will make sure to put a final finish on it, so it stays preserved.