Shameka Browne-Heskey: Week 3: Mouse

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Front View

Right View

For this project, I wanted to use organic shapes. I also wanted my mouse to be cordless. The shapes that I used remind me of germs of amoeba under a microscope.

The mouse was made from three, vertical and arc-like curves that were lofted, followed by a cut plane for the base. Then, I made the scroll button's cradle by Boolean differencing another sphere from the top of the mouse. The scroll button was made using a simple sphere with a slightly decreased size in that of the cradle for seamless scrolling. Lastly, the button cradles were drawn and edited using the control points to get the perfect apostrophe-like shape, and then mirrored along the x-axis for perfect symmetry. They were Boolean differenced from the mouse's surface and extruded downward. The rim of these cradles were piped for added detail. The actual buttons were created using the same shape, but they were extruded in a slightly longer and upward manner. As expected, all possible edges were filleted for a seamless intersection of shapes. I have four naked edges that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of.

To tie into the scientific, germ-like feeling, I used hard plastic with a glossed green paint for the body of the mouse. The scroll button is a classic, matte black rubber. Lastly, the left and right-click buttons are a hard orange plastic.