Jon Broadfoot: week 7 Lamp

     

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         When designing the overall shape of my lamp I really wanted to go for a sort of organic shape. I also wanted to see what I could do when I started with just a simple sphere. Most of my practice designs were derived from spheres and I had a lot of fun sculpting the sphere into different shapes.
 
          A couple of commands that I employed while creating my lamp where the rebuild command, contour, section, and then I used some rhino scripts to bring it all together. I started with a sphere then rebuilt it to get a lot of control points to work with. The shaped the sphere into a pleasing organic shape. Once this was completed I used the contour command to cut my horizontal sections. Then I used the section command to generate my vertical sections. When this was complete I use a cut my ribs rhinoscript and cut out the notches for my material. Then use a massive unroll rhinoscript to lay my lamp out to get laser cut. 
 
         As far as my decisions went for rendering my lamp. I chose to render the horizontal sections in a different color wood because I could not afford to buy two different types of wood but i thought it would make it even more aesthetically appealing to have a lighter color and a darker color wood in my lamp design. All in all I am very happy with how my lamp turned out.

Storm Sampson Lamp Concept

Kristin Leverette Week 7: Lamp

     For my lamp inspiration the shape came from my love for cupcakes. Cupcakes can come in all different forms but keep the same cupcake identity. Large, small, hard edges or soft round edges, the cherry, frosting and bottom remains the same.
     To form my lamp cupcake I used a line tool and extruded the line to make a solid. I then turned on my point curves to get the desired shape to make the cupcake. For the cherry I used a sphere tool.
     I wanted an all wooden cupcake for the materials, so I used three different types of wood. For my lighting, I didn't want the lightening too bright, so I lowered the brightness in keyshop. The less lighting allowed the lamp light to shine really well and also allowed the form to show.

John Sibert Week 8: Laser Cut Lamp

For my design I was inspired by forms found in nature, and particularly by insects. I took the design of a grasshoppers legs and abstracted it in order to get my forms. I decided to keep my lamp simple in order to gain a firm grasp of the laser cutting principles without causing undue frustration.

The creation was very simple and just involved drawing my curves and manually extruding.

I chose a simple wood material in order to show how the lamp might look when fabricated. I also included an emmisive light with a plastic cord to add to the realism.

Sean Carl: Week 8 Lamp

I was attracted to the idea of a modular, low to the ground lamp. Lower lighting gives things a more dramatic effect on the surrounding. Some of my profiles are kind of bulky, so I chose to used less sections to fulfill the material requirement.
My basic shape was a sphere with manipulated control points. I punched a sphere shaped hole in the back for the light cavity. The idea is that the light would rest on a circular piece, and the circular piece would be fixed in the sphere hole.
I used Polished light oak for the sections, and an area light for the bulb. For my real piece I'd want to use chipboard, but if that's not available cardboard will do.

Jessica Demasis: Week 8 Lamp

        Winters Light was inspired by snowflakes. I decided a snowflake pattern would be excellent for this project because it is a radial two dimensional shape that would be easy to use and interesting to look at. I explored different forms previously however none of them seemed eye catching enough. I think the use of the snowflakes pattern in this lamp makes it a strong, eye catching piece. 

   

     I created this design by drawing out the shape in Adobe Illustrator and then creating a surface from that in Rhino. Once I had the surface, I edited the shape and size of it in various ways. I did this so that I could them for different sections. I did use the Couture and section command when exploring other ideas, however for this particular concept I found it easier to simply use surfaces. I also made a tea light out of basic shapes so that I would have something to base the size off of.

        For the materials I used an Axalta paint for the snowflake form. I found that this material gave the form an excellent shine and reflection as well as color. For the candel I used a light gray plastic and for the flame I used a clear plastic.

Ryan Gillam: Week 8 Lamp

This lamp design was inspired by contemporary oceanic art.  The final form is very reminiscent of a campfire.  Thus, I named it "Ahi", the Hawaiian word for fire.

Once the initial solid form had been created I used the contour tool to create the curves.  Then I created the surfaces using the surface from planar curve tool.  The vertical surfaces were drawn as a separate curve.  They we're multiplied and oriented radial with the polar array feature.

The material of the lamp is a highly polished rose wood with and ash texture added.  I used the warm light for the bulb to look like a home incandescent bulb. 

Ryan Gillam: Week 7 Ring

Grant Hoskins Lamp Concept

Grant Hoskins Lamp Concept 1

Kathrine Clark: Ring Question

Hello Again Professor,

The signature inside my ring is, as you said, an "outie" and I would like it to be on the printed version. Can you tell me which would print better and innie or an outie and how I can accomplish the task. They are not extruded objects. 

Thank You,

Kathrine

Kathrine Clark: New Lamp Study for PS Review

Hello Professor! 

Thanks for your help after class. I have been working on this new design inspired by a goblet tulip. Can you please review? I completely reworked the lamp to incorporate all that you explained and believe this new design will work well. Please let me know so I can make changes before Thursday. Thank you!!

Jace McDill Week 7: Lamp PRACTICE!!!

Tyler Parton / Lazer Lamp Concepts / ELDS 205 /

I wanted to weigh the difference between the use of a negative form or a positive built ribbed form. The object in the middle is a cross between the two. I wanted the static form to also have a sense of motion. The material that I have thought about using would be acrylic with mirror backing.

Thank you.

Juan Sebastian Moreno: Week 7 Lamp Concepts

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 Third Concept

 Fourth Concept

Fifth Concept

Alex Bilzerian: Week 7_ Lamp

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These are Rhino generated models for lamp concepts. These lamps are set to be laser cut so therefore, we are going to assemble the parts we print (apposed to 3D-Printing). The method behind these forms are created by a solid object, from the object sections are made, on both the X and Y axis, leaving behind a waffle form. I gained inspiration for the design from an old antique lamp which had that generic lamp shape. I ultimately wanted to create a design with the form of a normal desk lamp yet at the same time was totally different.

The different teqhniques I used in rhino this week included pipe cutting and MASSIVE UNROLL. Using said techniques allowed for me to create a a waffle form lamp to be laser printed. The X-axis and Y-axis layers consist of male and female notches which will ultimately hold the structure when the layers are laser cut

For my renderings I made sure to keep the background moderately light with a dark vignette. This gives the lamp some pop when in the middle of the page. Keyshot was my main program used to create these renderings, and from there finished them in Photoshop (this included labeling and visual-aids).