New Semester, New Me

 


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. 






Then I had to unfold this thing. Once again, I made something that was way harder than I'd anticipated. I had to leave the computer and try again the next day. I remember something my professor Brian had told me: the most important skill in object design to master is sleep. Sure enough, when I woke up the next day, I had my head wrapped around the rotation a lot better. I understand better when to use Rotate vs. Rotate3D, so I'm glad I persevered through the struggle. 














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