Christian McKenzie - week 7: Lamp

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When thinking of radial patters I immediately visualize fruit, watches, and mechanical components. I looked to these things to guide me in my design. I chose a strawberry and a sprocket. I added a perforated pattern as strawberries have seeds on the exterior, to keep the mechanical aspect I made these cutouts round. I came up with a basic gear design and filleted the edges in order to keep the organic properties of a fruit.

In Rhino I used the curve tools to make my horizontal intersections. I measured my hand and devised an interior circumference that seemed I could fit my hand into fit my hand into.  I made the curves into surfaces using the planar curve command in the surface menu. I made the outer curves of the vertical sections by using the horizontal layer for guidelines drawing in the front view. I used offset curve, array, and curve Boolean to make the perforation. I then used the polar array and planar curves to make my vertical intersections. I used pipes and split in order to make the notches in the sections.

In Key shot I chose wood for the vertical sections, I tried to enhance it by adding a bump pattern and making adjustments various adjustments mostly to the contrast, scale of the pattern. Wood has an organic warmth that this more mechanically arrangement needs. I then used a metallic paint on the horizontal sections. The metallic material as an accent puts more emphasis on the interior forms. Without the Metallic, the horizontal layers become easily interpreted as a cylindrical visual mass, or a heavy base, in the rest of the design.