Kirsten Warkow: Week 8 Chair

Ghosted View

Ghosted View for Keyshot

Keyshot Rendering with Isometric View

Keyshot Rendering with Orthographic Views and Dimensions

Keyshot Rendering

Keyshot Rendering (Remote and Button Close-Up View)

For my tubular chair design, I decided to create something out of the ordinary and came up with the idea for a flying chair. Inspired by the design of a helicopter, The Heli-Flyer is an electric powered chair that can fly using a propeller at the top. Remotes on the right and left arm rests of the chair can control the flyer's direction, ascension, and descent. The basic white buttons control the direction, the blue button controls ascension, and the orange button controls the decent.
In Rhino, I modeled my chair using the Boolean union command, the Fillet edges command, as well as the Pipe and Split commands. To create the top and bottom cushions of the flyer, I created a basic elliptical shape and then rebuilt the line structure and morphed the ellipse to get a cushion-like shape. To create the buttons for the remote as well as a space for the propellers, I used the boolean difference command.
For my Keyshot material choices, the metal piping of the chair is made out of steel, the cushions are red-velvet, and the remote, bottom landings, and propeller parts are made out of plastic. I didn't want to use too many materials for my chair, but I just wanted to have reasonable and sensible materials for every part of my design. I chose red as the main color so that when in flight, the Heli-Flyer can be spotted from a distance. As far as lighting goes, I kept the basic environment the same and really only played with contrast to get my reflections on the shiny steel pipes.

Inspiration: http://www.helibott.com/images/photos/helicopter3.jpg