Nick Tourville- Week 10 Camera

    The idea for this design came from doodling cameras on Rhino. I accidentally made an almost comically large lens for one camera, and I liked how it looked like a giant robotic eye. Around the idea of this eye, I modeled Snap,  a spider-like portable camera. Snap is controlled wirelessly controlled  via an iPhone or Android app and can be used to take photographs. Prewritten paths can also be programmed into Snap, and it has a touch screen underneath to change settings and view photos. Snap easily connects to computers via a USB outlet in its back.
    I started modeling Snap from the eye, using cylinders for the lens housing and an extruded and bent circle for the lens. The main body is a manipulated sphere, and the legs and piped and bent curves. The neck between the lens and body is two blended curves, the combination of which made for a more interesting transition between the two parts. The USB drive was added by copying in my USB from a previous project and using Boolean Difference.
   The main body of Snap is a hard plastic casing. The legs coverings are made of nylon and the lens and flash are glass. The two spheres on Snap's back that house indicator lights (one for power and another for charging) are also made of glass, and the lights themselves are colored emissive materials.