MyceliumM8's 3D Models

 This new project is to design an original clock design. Specifically this week was to sketch out 6-8 designs of clocks, which I personally kind of struggled through the latter half of these designs. I included the actual times that the designs are telling to better express how the designs are intended to function.  Some of the designs (specifically 3, 5, and 7) I find are very traditional in their designs and are probably the simplest to design and create. There are some that are close to a traditional clock design (1, 4, and 6) but due to some changes in the mechanics of the designs I believe they'd be very interesting to explore how to make these functional. Finally, there's the group of designs (2, and 8) that I believe will be a significant challenge to create the mechanics of the clocks due to the designs being so far from a traditional clock design.

 (I totally forgot to make this post after I took the images, it just completely went over my head.) this weeks assignment was to create a laser cut prototype for our waterjet pieces

The project for this week is to prepare our object for a laser cut paper prototype. Below is the intended object rendered and textured to look like copper material  This image below is the unfolded model with surfaces. This image below is the laser cut template with tabs at every connection point that would need to be glued together, as well as hidden score lines for the lines that will need to be folded.  

 I've chosen to create a plant pot designed like an 8 sided dice. yup that's it, that's all I got.

 the assignment was to create a 3d object using only planar surfaces and to unfold them like a paper cube. I chose to start this term off simple and make a hexagonal pencil. In order to challenge myself and ensure my understanding of the rotate 3D tool I decided to unfold the model in as many ways as I could think of

 Finally, my coaster design is finished, the laser cutting was a success, and the assembly of the parts was smooth and without many challenges.  I chose to use plywood because it was already at my desired thickness and because I wanted to see how engraving it would turn out, also because I wanted to be able to make changes after cutting if necessary.   The biggest challenge that I came across with this project was the assembly which I hadn't thought of when I was designing the coaster, it was very important that I had all the parts lined up properly so that I could weave the elastic cord through each petal.  Thankfully the assembly wasn't too difficult with the offcuts being useful for making sure that the channel in the middle layer is properly spaced out to line up with the rest of the parts. The main difference of the final product compared to the renders would be the colour, the reason for the lack of colour in the final product is due to the fact that it was cut...