Ceci Michelena: Week 5 Glasses

 

My sunglasses design was inspired by vintage aviators. I chose to go with a theme of Ferrari because it is very suiting to this category of glasses. 

To create the model in Rhino, I imported my orthographic images I had drawn and aligned them appropriately (as we learned in class). I used the offset surface tool a lot to create solids out of surfaces that were already curved. For the gold rim around the lenses I used the piping tool. To create the details of the horse and the lines, I projected curves and extruded/piped them. I added hinge details to the ear pieces to support the idea of the folding sunglasses design.

Because of the vintage theme, I chose to use dark wood as the material for the frames. The details such as the piping around the frames, the horse, and the stripes behind the horse are made of 24k gold to maintain the high status and luxury of a Ferrari. And finally, the name "F205 Scuderia" was inspired by the way Ferrari names a handfull of their cars, such as F40, F50, F12, etc. and I replaced the numbers with our course number (ELDS 205).