Emily O'Brien: Chair

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   To design my chair I thought of the classic bar stool chair, with a few modifications. I added a slight slant to the seat of the chair so your legs can hang with comfort and getting on and off the chair fast is easier. As for the middle I played with points and lines in Rhino and after crossing several lines over and over I came up with the star-like shape for the seat.

   I used the polyline to create the general shape of the Bar Stool and added piping to the entirety of it. at the bottom I used the Extract Isocurve tool along with split to cut the harsh edges off of my piping and then used the Blend Surface tool to create nice and smooth curves for the base of the chair.  For the top harsh curves, at first, I did the same as I did to the base, but I found it needed a little pazazz so I added the spheres for a decorative look.

   The materials are mainly Anodized Rough metals in silver, blue and black. The curved base of the chair is in an old cast iron material.

Christian de Lavalette: week 10 Flag Kite

for my design I took inspiration from the french flag, 

the type of kite i built is a conyne kite.

Shannon Donnelly L-Chair

For the design I was inspired by curvilinear forms. I wanted to keep the sides open to make the chair more airy and lightweight.
I used the curve tool to make the profile of the chair, then I extracted it to make the L shape. I used the section tool to take curves from the form. I made, then mirrored a curve for the legs of the chair. I piped the curves to different sizes, then joined and filleted them together.
For materials I wanted to contrast the sleek look of the chrome with the neutrals of the wood. I chose to balance the weight of the colors by using one dark and one light wood. I incorporated the industrial look of the chrome in the legs, then in the cross pieces to unify the design.

Ellen Siu & Jeffrey Tindi | Kite | Week 10

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Our kite wasn't started with an initial concept. We chose a simple color scheme. We taped the edges with red tape and a bit of silver tape.

To create the kite we used plastic table cloth and used paper cement, duck tape to combine our pieces. 

Emily O'Brien: Camera

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   For my camera I was inspired by the old, shake it Polaroid cameras. I took the old box shape and added several curves and bumps so that the camera appears more sleek, The matte black coloring adds a bit of edge to the sleek look. I also added a touch of modern to the Old Fashion by adding a screen to view the image rather than looking into the camera.

   To create this shape I started with its original shape of an extruded a square. Then I trimmed out some of the surfaces and added Blended and Network Surfaces to create the curved surfaces. In the front the lens was created with three extruded circles. The area where the picture is ejected from was created using an extruded rectangle that went partially into the camera, then using Boolean Difference I cut out the shape I wanted. For the buttons I used my knowledge from the mouse project and added a 3D object to my camera, Boolean Differenced the object but did not delete it so that a casing was made for the button. I then added fillets to get rid of my rough edges.

   For materials I used all hard, matte plastics in black, teal and green. For the lens I added a glass piece that is hard to see due to the black matte plastic on the rest of the camera. The flash has an emissive light on it. For the image screen I added an opaque texture onto a white, hard plastic.

Joel Salomonsson: Week 10 Speed-Kite

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I chose a simplistic design for my kite. The main color is green and the pattern concist of black fabric. My kite is controlled with two strings to allow more controll in the air. 

Elee Holtermann Parker Williams: The Judge

For our Kite project we decided to do the traditional Delta style kite and use a cool pattern painted on it to have an interesting affect with the sun when it's flying. The design was inspired by a few of Parker's paintings and for the paint we decided to use gold spray paint which worked pretty well. Flying our kite was pretty difficult because it seemed to be slightly heavier on one side so it always wanted to lean to the right. However we did manage to get one or two good runs in with our kite giving us a fly duration of a little under a minute.

Alexia Dutriz and Emily O'Brien: AE Kite!

Savannah Sears: Tubular Chair

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My inspiration for this chair was the Brno chair by Mies van der Rohe. I wanted to make something similar to his designs because I like how modern his work still is.

To model this chair I drew curves and piped them for the base. For the seat I created two rectangles that I filletted and boolean unioned.

For materials I chose to render the seat in two different materials, black leather and perforated leather. I kept the tubes at a shiny metal for both renders. I chose these materials because I thought they looked best and also very similar to the original Brno chair.

Joel Salomonsson: Week 10 Camera

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I based my design on the new Leica camera that was just released. The camera only have four buttons to make everything more simple and the back consists of a big touch screen to view photos and manege the settings.

I created a curve for the body and extruded it to get the shape. I then filleted te edges a little bit to avoid getting sharp edges. I created the lens by making a curve and then extruding that curve to the length that I wanted. I used offset on that curve to make it smaller and then extruded it to use it for bole an difference to get a hole for the glass lens. The glass lens is a sphere that has the same diameter as the inner circle of the lens but I used scale1d to "flatten it out".

The cameras body is made out of Aluminium to get that premium feel and the lens is made out of black plastic since most of the lenses on the market today utilize that material.