Ailsa Petrie Week 5: Sunglasses

 Orthographic

 Isometric

 Gestural

 Ghosted

Keyshot

My inspiration for this project was a pair of kaleidoscope glasses my friend bought at CounterPoint Music Festival. These glasses didn't help you see better, they made you see things differently. The purpose of my Special Treat Sunnies is similar, a disorienting hood, and then an open rim for when you want to look around and grasp your bearings. 

 

I made these glassed using bitmaps as a guide. I BooleanDifferenced a cylinder from another slender cylinder to get a rim for the glasses and then used a sphere, quartered it and offset that surface for the hood lense. I used Sweep 2 Rails for the frame. I then mirrored all my work to create the other side of the glasses. 

 

I used a kaleidescope-like glass for the lenses, to show they are disorienting sunglasses. The frame was made of sterling silver and the ball hinge of a red metal. I like pops of color in my design, similarly to my computer Maus design.