Laura Matteo: Week 5 - Glasses

 Kathrine Clark's Drawings

Kathrine Clark's Drawings

Rhino File

Perspective View

Top View

 

Side View

 

      For the glasses I had the chance to model Kathrine Clark's Glasses. As you can see in the drawings, the glasses are meant to be for horse riding. I didn't understand the idea of the glasses after I modeled them. Kathrine explained me that the glasses were supposed to only cover the eyes (it is shown in the first drawings), they were not supposed to have a frame. I did them like this because I was confused by the drawings and I thought that it would go well with the market. 

     I modeled the glasses thinking of its functionality, I thought that horse riders will need glasses that would hold really well to their heads and that is why the frame is open so it fits behind the ears. Also, Kathrine designed the glasses so they could fold and snap. 

    When I started it on Rhino, I began by placing the pictures with the command Picture Frame, and then just trace the right side of the drawing with the Curve command. After tracing everything, I converted the curve into a PlanarCurve, Trim the curve, and then Extrude it to make it thick. To create the little holes, I just used cylinders and did a BooleanDifference. When I was done, I just mirrored the right side of the glasses. To create the object in the middle so it could fold, I just used to boxes and cut them with a diagonal cutplane.

      In KeyShot Iwanted to used brown and blue colors because I feel that they would look good with their outfit howevere all of the brown colors were too brights and I wanted the glasses to have a very edgy style. I decided to go for the black and grey color palette with some white edges.