Ryan Quinn: Week 5 Modeling From Drawings

Grant Hoskins designed these glasses.  With a blind pull from a box, i picked these drawings to model in rhino.  They were a unique challenge for 3-D modelling.  

I started this project by simply tracing the curves of the front.  After that i draw a line the would be the angles shape of the front of the glasses and lens and used the crv2view command to put the lines i had drawn onto the correct curvature.  The ear pieces were made with two rails, a cross section curve and 3 sweep2's.  The holes in the lens and the frame were drawn, projected and trimmed out.  

I used white dense glass for the lens, a simple and clear choice.  The ear pieces and nose piece were made of a hard, black plastic.  Grant named them "Blackhawk" so i had to throw some black in there.  The plastic was chosen simply because it looked like an Oakley sun glass material.  Finally the lens hold was made from Hot Poppy_745633.  I still have no idea what that means, but the black and red worked well together for the render.