Jon Broadfoot: week 7 Lamp

     

    JonBroadfoot_Winter2014_Elds2014_Lamp

         When designing the overall shape of my lamp I really wanted to go for a sort of organic shape. I also wanted to see what I could do when I started with just a simple sphere. Most of my practice designs were derived from spheres and I had a lot of fun sculpting the sphere into different shapes.
 
          A couple of commands that I employed while creating my lamp where the rebuild command, contour, section, and then I used some rhino scripts to bring it all together. I started with a sphere then rebuilt it to get a lot of control points to work with. The shaped the sphere into a pleasing organic shape. Once this was completed I used the contour command to cut my horizontal sections. Then I used the section command to generate my vertical sections. When this was complete I use a cut my ribs rhinoscript and cut out the notches for my material. Then use a massive unroll rhinoscript to lay my lamp out to get laser cut. 
 
         As far as my decisions went for rendering my lamp. I chose to render the horizontal sections in a different color wood because I could not afford to buy two different types of wood but i thought it would make it even more aesthetically appealing to have a lighter color and a darker color wood in my lamp design. All in all I am very happy with how my lamp turned out.