Shameka Browne-Heskey: Week 3: Mouse

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Front View

Right View

For this project, I wanted to use organic shapes. I also wanted my mouse to be cordless. The shapes that I used remind me of germs of amoeba under a microscope.

The mouse was made from three, vertical and arc-like curves that were lofted, followed by a cut plane for the base. Then, I made the scroll button's cradle by Boolean differencing another sphere from the top of the mouse. The scroll button was made using a simple sphere with a slightly decreased size in that of the cradle for seamless scrolling. Lastly, the button cradles were drawn and edited using the control points to get the perfect apostrophe-like shape, and then mirrored along the x-axis for perfect symmetry. They were Boolean differenced from the mouse's surface and extruded downward. The rim of these cradles were piped for added detail. The actual buttons were created using the same shape, but they were extruded in a slightly longer and upward manner. As expected, all possible edges were filleted for a seamless intersection of shapes. I have four naked edges that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of.

To tie into the scientific, germ-like feeling, I used hard plastic with a glossed green paint for the body of the mouse. The scroll button is a classic, matte black rubber. Lastly, the left and right-click buttons are a hard orange plastic.

Meghan Preiss Week 3 Mouse

      For my mouse design I wanted something that was edgy looking. I created indents for both the thumb and pinky finger. The mouse itself is curved to maximize comfort with the natural curve of one's hand. Where the thumb would rest is a finger print reader. I was inspired to do this by the fingerprint scanner on my iphone.

     I used loft and blendsrf to create the base of my mouse. To create the fingerprint scanner I used the project and pipe commands. I also used booleanunion, boolean difference, and fillet to create my buttons on my mouse.

     I chose to work with gold and black to create a luxury feel. The black mouse with the gold accents uses three different golds to accent each piece. While the gold mouse with the black accents only uses 24K gold. 
    

Peyman Pirzadeh _ Week 3 _ Mouse

For the third project we had to model a mouse. After researching different models and design I decided to come up with a very simple design instead of making it very imaginative. 

I tried to use the new techniques we recently learned as much as possible to be comfortable working with them. For the main body which is black I had three curves and used Loft to connect them together. As an option, I chose Closed surface then I drew a plane and cut the bottom part and used Creatsolid to make the whole thing one. I used Filletedge to make the edges rounded and smoother. I also used Sweeper2 for the bottom part to cut, Pipe, BooleanDifference and Project. 

For the material there's Black Hard Rough Plastic for the main part, Red hard rough plastic for part around the scroll wheel and Modeled leather plastic for the two scroll wheels.