Katharina Fuetterer and Melissa Shuford: Week 10 Captain Kite

Katharina Fuetterer Week 7: Chryses Lamp

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     The Chryses Lamp is a design that works for any style. The design is divided into six horizontal sections and ten vertical sections. The top of the Chryses Lamp is exactly the same looking as the bottom which gives the lamp a good design balance. It also has legs at the bottom that add extra support to the structure. 

     The vertical pieces were created out of a cylinder. The horizontal pieces were created out of a curve that I drew at the edge of the cylinder and revolved 360 degrees. I then contoured the horizontal pieces to create three flat surfaces for the top and three flat surfaces for the bottom. I sectioned the vertical pieces to create ten flat surfaces. I then later (after flattening the entire image to laser print) extruded all surfaces to create a keyshot friendly rendering.

     I chose a mahogany material for my rendering but chose a simple plywood for my finished laser cut product (I can't afford mahogany). To render the lamp I used rendering in passes. I used a diffuse layer, a beauty layer, a texture/roughness layer, and a simple colored layer to create the final image. 

Katharina Fuetterer Week 6: Ring

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     My ring, Nenya, was inspired by the Lord of the Rings and this ring. Nenya is one of the Three Rings, one of the most powerful rings in Tolkien's mythology. It supposedly has a radiance that matches that of the stars. In this way I wanted to create a ring that is formed from a basic shape but has elegant and radiant detail. As I was researching rings I noticed that there is only one basic Lord of the Rings ring that contains the quote, which isn't very extravagant. I created a design that highlights the quote on the ring and has detail through the spirals.

     To create the basic form of the ring I made a cylinder and booleandifferenced a smaller cylinder into the outer edge. To form the spirals I used the spiral command and piped the separate curves. I used a pictureframe to create the quote and used the command flow along surface to wrap the text around the ring. I created a very large fillet for the inner edges so that the ring can be taken off and put on easily. I used smaller fillets for the remaining edges. Then I booleanunioned the spirals to my ring and booleandifferenced the letters into the surface. 

     To create my renderings I used several passes. The main material of the ring is a polished copper but has a black metal material overlay to create stronger lighting effects. I also used an ambient occlusion layer, a specular layer, a mask layer, and a diffuse layer. To create the orthographic projections I used the command make2d in rhino and copied the created image into photoshop. 

     

Katharina Fuetterer Week 5: Sunglasses

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     My sunglass design, Apollo 172, is inspired by the classic Aviator sunglass design. The earpiece in the back of the glasses is designed to be flexible and curve around the shape of the head. I added small details in the front solely for looks as well as on the sides. There are hinges at each side of the glasses for easy storing. The lenses are rounded to fit around the eye easily.

     I started off by making the frame of the glasses by piping a curve that I had created. To make the lenses I took the original curve of the frame and used sweep. The detail at the front and sides was created by placing several cylinders on top of a box shape and using booleanunion to union the shapes. The back earpieces were created by extruding a curve. To create the hinges I split the side detail, extruded two different curves for either side and booleandifferenced the two extrusions.

     I used an anodized rough black for the frame of the sunglasses to give the design a clean finish. The lenses are a clear shiny plastic in the color slate gre. This gave the design a slight pop of color while not looking too flashy. The back earpieces are a soft black rough for comfort. The nose-pieces are a clear shiny plastic in the color cool grey as most nose pieces are.

Katharina Fuetterer Week 4: Detergent Bottle

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     For this week's assignment I made a detergent bottle. My design concept was mainly based off of the template. I detailed the cap a bit to make the bottle more interesting to look at as well as offset a surface to create a unique shape in the bottle design.

     I started out by using the template to create my main surface. I created a curve for the handle which I then extruded, booleandifferenced into the surface, and filleted the edges. To create the large curve across the surface, I offset an inner curve off of the template, extruded both curves, split the surface with the extrusions, and blended all naked edges. For the cap I created corkscrews by using the video tutorial and added ridges on the outer wall to add more detail to the overall design. To do this I made a very skinny and long cylinder which I arraypolared around the cap to make about 25 cylinders. Then I booleandifferenced all of them into the cap creating ridges along the edge. Each ridge is filleted as well as the top of the cap and the bottom of the bottle.

     The materials I applied are a simple hard shiny plastic. I chose the colors torquoise and gray because they were not as alarming of a color as most detergent bottles are.

Katharina Fuetterer Week 3: Mouse

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     For this week's design I was inspired by this mouse. I wanted to create a sleek design with minimal but very functional buttons. Most mouse designs have a very high arched midsection that I did not find appealing. My design has an arch towards the back section but has cut out sections for the thumb to comfortably rest on. Both, left handed and right handed people can use this mouse with ease.

     To create the design I used commands such as BooleanDifference, ExtrudeCrv, Rotate, Loft, Join, Trim Split, BlendSrf, Fillet, PlanarSrf, FilletEdge and more.

     The materials in this design are Polished Aluminum for the body and Matte Paint in the color Jet Black for all the buttons. I wanted the mouse to look as sleek as possible and this aluminum finish did just that. The Jet Black color added great contrast to the bright aluminum material.

Katharina Fuetterer Week 2: Flashlight

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     The concept of my flashlight is primarily a sleek looking design. I wanted to create an accordion look to the top half of the flashlight to make it seem as if it can be extended. The center-bottom area was left blank in order for the palm of the hand to have a comfortable grasp.

     I used several commands to create this flashlight mainly focusing on rotate, array polar, copy, booleandifference, curveboolean, filletcurve, and filletedge. The entire design was based on the idea of revolving a curve to create a solid object by using the command revolve.

     To finalize my design in keyshot I used three materials. The first material is a chrome black for the sleeve of the flashlight to create a stainless steel look and feel. The second material is a metallic paint in the color deep red for the bottom detail. The third material is also a metallic paint in the color light olive for the circle detail.

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Katharina Fuetterer: Week 1 Castle

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     My castle is inspired by the Arendelle castle off of the movie "Frozen." A link to this castle is here. The castle in its entirety is very complex therefore I wanted to focus in on one specific area. The pillars were my main focus. I used several modeling commands to create this castle such as copy, extrudecrv, curveboolean, booleandifference, rotate and many more. The materials I used in Keyshot include metallic paint, stone, and plastic.