Adventures With My Rhinoceros

  Pedestal For A Ring  For today’s assignment I’ve made a 3D form in Rhino out of a 2D paper model.  I’m really into large structural sculptures, so I came up with a design. Because of the limitations of two dimensions, I wasn’t able to layout the shape I wanted correctly on a flat surface, so I took the same concept and simply cut it in half. This is the shape I came up with. It was supposed to be one big standing X shape, but like I said I settled for something a little less complex (for now). I almost like this shape anyways because its flat surface opens the piece up to functional use as a pedestal.  Below are some views of the final object created in Rhino: Again I had to kinda settle with what I made. There were some unexpected nuances with the paper model that became really hard to translate onto the computer model,  namely the way paper bends and pinches and pulls, that I had to do my best recreating in Rhino without a network surface. Otherwise I’m pret...

  Modern Vase on LSD For this next assignment we are making a mold for an abstract object. The examples given in class were cool vases and containers, so I thought I'd make my own vase.  Hopefully my design is actually practical, as I'd really like to make a real mold of this thing and possibly cast and fire this thing in a kiln just to have in my house as a center piece on my coffee table.  It took a lot of triangular forms to get such a distinct shape to work. I had to take extra care that the mesh was properly connected, and I eventually had to go back and clean up some of the geometry. It still isn't perfect, as the object won't join correctly. I know there is a function that highlights the problem areas, but I can't remember how to do it, so I'll ask my professor on Wednesday.  *Edit, I figured it out. This is my vase scaled down to fit the dimensions of my mold. Fingers crossed I can get this all figured out.  Final model of the casting rig.

  New Semester, New Me January 13th, 2026   Today I'm showing off a little exercise I did for my object design class I've decided to take in my third year at Auarts.  We were told to make an object using only planar surfaces, then unfold it into one contiguous layout using the rotate functions.   We did a fun little warm up in class by folding pieces of paper to make some kind of object. Naturally the class leaned heavily into origami, as did I because I loved origami as a kid. My Rhino exercise was definitely inspired by the origami I saw in class but I wanted to push the form in ways impossible with traditional origami techniques.  Sometimes I retroactively find my inspirations for things after I'm halfway through a project. I think I was inspired by one of the "Angels" from the popular anime  Evangelion.  I think it would be cool to do a series of my own angels, all of which are geometric, planar, and unfold like this one in the show.  The...