Journey of Design

  For my laser cut I decided to use wood even though I wanted color for my piece because I would not be able to achieve different layers to the degree I would want. I would like to do this laser cut again now that I know what certain intensities look like on this wood. I was kind of guessing the values for the layers and it worked out mostly but the flower in the middle would pop more if I used a larger range of intensities for the added contrast. I will probably use this as a coaster for now but I would like to keep exploring laser cutting using different materials and designs

The three objects I decided to choose for this project are a pencil sharpener, Lego figure, and a exacta knife as seen below.  

I was aiming to recreate a tankard through exploring what I can do to already existing materials. Using commands I now and learning some new ones I was able to create this. I started this project making a simple tea cup and using the pipe command to create the hand but as got close to finishing I was not happy with the results so I swapped up my design for a tankard. Offset was the main tool I used on this being able to create the simple outline and creating the metal that hold the cup together. For the handle I used sweep 1 and created a curve in the shape I wanted and then created a rectangle at one end of the curve and rotated it as I liked.  This project helped me learn more tools that I can use on future projects such as sweep and pipe. Materials really help bring the model to life.

 Here I applied the surface design I previously created onto 3d object. I found out that if you hold shift control you can choose what surfaces you can highlight on a 3d object and it made my surface design look more successful on the cube. I decided on using the cube as one of my objects as it shows a flaw in my design as it was not made in mind of it working as a pattern across faces of a object but rather one singular surface. 

 References Process I was creating random shapes in class and made a document of just shapes that I liked so I could use it as a library if I wanted. This was helpful with creating an outline and filling negative space. I was wanting to make my surface design to be like a stamp or brand, rather then a pattern. I took inspiration of a oni mask and using the sun and the moon as a way of contrast.  I choose the colors for the oni mask before anything as I wanted specific colors for it and contrasted the rest of the design based off of the mask. I did put it in a pattern after I finished the design and did not like how it looked this way as it had so much negative space and the detail from the oni mask was getting lost in the piece.

  This is my take on the house from the Wona arc form One Piece. I decided to recreate this as One Piece was something I watched during the summer. The voxel approach I took was to make it slightly more difficult with all the curves and bends just using boxes. By using a voxel approach it was quite easy to create a scale and frame for the base and add onto it. When it can to adding detail to it and adding to the frame voxels limited me to certain shapes and could not let me achieve the exact look of the idea. Trying to add flow to a box using more boxes is quite difficult and it did not work in my piece. I found from doing this assignment that I would use voxel as a starting frame for a 3d model to create a frame and scale the model but when it comes to creating the model I would rather use the proper tools to create the shapes needed.                                     ...