Savannah Sears Week 5 Sunglasses

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When designing my sunglasses, I did not have anything specific in mind. I just designed something that had many details I admired about sunglasses in general. But after rendering my design, it reminded me of a cobra or a rattlesnake so I decided to name them Snake Shades.

In the design process in Rhino, I started by putting in my scanned drawings and drawing over them with curves. I then created a "bent" curve in the top view that I extruded down as a surface, and Crv2View my frame/lens curves so that they were against that surface. From there I split and extruded that using extrude surface straight. For the sides of the sunglasses I did the same thing I just did not use Crv2View and instead rotated them in slightly. I also filleted my edges and used Boolean Difference for the diamond cutouts I included. I also used Boolean Union to join the entire frame together.

In KeyShot I chose to use basic materials found on most sunglasses. I chose a shiny black plastic for the frame and a clear yellow-ish plastic for the lens. I chose the black plastic for the frame because I like classic plastic sunglasses and I feel it would be the best material to use. I chose the yellow clear plastic for the lenses because the color reminds me of snake eyes and I felt it matched the theme well.