Crysta Polvinale Week 6: Sunglasses

This design was made with the intent to create a hardy, durable sunglasses frame to be "easy to hold and easy to fold". I personally don't care for thin and fragile sunglasses that feel like you might break them if you hold on to tightly. The Simpletons are something you can toss into your bag without worrying about them getting crushed.
Modeling techniques in Rhino included picture frames of my sketches to closely follow the original idea. I also used Curve 2 views to get the curved shape for the frames. My workflow also included patching, boolean union and extracting isocurves.
In keyshot, I wanted to give the frames a modern tortoiseshell look. I used clear plastic to reinforce the durable concept. Over that I added a color map of granite and scaled that up so it looked like a cloudy detail in the plastic.