Adventures With My Rhinoceros

Teching This Deck 'Till I Flip My Process  As usual I have chosen a project that is probably a little out of my skill range, but if I can pull this off my skills will grow immensely. I'll officially be better in Rhino than I am at Blender.   For my biggest project yet, I've chosen a Tech Deck that I have to recreate to high accuracy in Rhino. The deck itself is highly nuanced with it's curves, so a simple shape wont cut it. It will take some surface modeling to get the job done. The rest seems fairly doable, save the trucks which will require a little surface modeling.  For some reason the picture resolution looks like dog s**t, but hey there it is.  To make sure my object actually look like a real tech deck I've have to figure out all the little dimensions involved. I have to form the deck, the trucks and their base, then the little screws and hex nuts. The latter few will be a breeze to model.  UPDATE November 14th, 2024 ~ Reading Break I've been locked in. Th...

Custom Coasters    I promise I completed these a week ago.  I have been the worst for uploading my work to my blog.  However, I wanna just say that these weren't even my fist coasters. My original ones were actually crappy plywood I got for cheap at the bookstore. I got so excited about the project that I wanted to make them out of plastic.  I went back and touched up my design a bit according to the test run I did on the plywood. Then I figured I may as well make three coasters out of high quality wood while I was at it. We have a nice wooden table at home that could use some 'decor', and it'd be a waste to have an artist in the house who didn't contribute to the Feng shui.  So these are my objects. Im really happy with the way they turned out, and it's a good feeling knowing I can bring a design to life. 

  Dude, Check Out My New Canoe Or maybe don't, I dunno. For some reason, I cannot drag and drop color onto my new canoe and I'm really sad about that. Life would be perfect if I could show all my friends this beautiful boat rendered with fine wood texture,  and water that rippled underneath it. I want to prove to them I can bring life to anything their hearts desired. They would think I'm a god. But I'm not, because I can't apply color to my boat.  Life is a mystery.

  Screw You I'm sorry that was a little rude, but literally we're talking about screws today.  This screw was an in-class exercise that we did a week back or so. I was the first time I used the Sweep1 command in Rhino. While the command itself wasn't that hard to execute, it did show me some of the nuance that's needed to get the command to work. If I remember correctly, the triangle that was to be swept around as the screws threads couldn't be touching the track twice. This meant that I had to scale my triangle down a little so it was only in contact with one portion of the track at any given time.  When I did the command first time around, this little quirk didn't make much sense, I just did what the instructor told me to do. However, the more familiar I become with the software and it's rules these operations begin to make complete sense: Sweep1 only works with one track, Sweep2 requires an object to contact two tracks. Because the track used in the screw...

My Medieval Mug  To be more precise, this is technically a chalice.  We received a 'bonus" task from our prof to make a mug using the revolve function. I made little grooves in the neck of the cup to make it a little more ergonomically functional, while making the last little grove into a circle for aesthetics. Our prof told us something else which I guess I never really noticed before: mugs are never completely flat on the bottom. It's designed to curve over any crumbs it may sit on, and in doing so sits flat on the table and prevents spillage. I thought this component would be especially important to add to my chalice as it's height makes any accidental angle applied to it (like a big crumb) more likely to spill my drink. 

The Shapes of All Time  And the texture that defines them. Behold my babies.  My digital journey has lead me to the creation and stylization of 3D objects; freshly created, AND RENDERED, in Rhino.  They are adorned with the latest texture I dropped last week.  As stated in my previous blog, the design was inspired by classic Persian rugs, like the one my parents used to own many years ago.  The sphere does not have much in common with the design itself, other than they are both circular. The "rug" (top image) wears the pattern nicely, and is on it's way to becoming a "true rug". One day... when my digital creative prowess reaches rug status....  Meanwhile the "tent" is... well a tent I guess. I wanted to use a prism to begin with, but rhino chose a octagonal cone instead. From there I created like 15 points in all three dimensions and started stretching it. I think I've created like a circus tent that has a couple supports collapsing.