Lab #2 went pretty well, although I had some change in plans sometimes, and I do think the execution with the materials was a little wonky, and I think that I could've solved for different reasons.
For Part A, I wasn't quite sure what to model, but I definitely wanted to do something more interesting than what I did in lab 1. Eventually, me and two of my other classmates and friends decided to do some sort of animated characters, and we ultimately decided on Spongebob characters. I chose plankton, because his form seemed simple, but was recognizable and interesting. I modeled him in Rhino using very basic shapes, like a cylinder and half-spheres and pipes. Then I used Cage Edit to make him into a more natural shape. An issue I came across was trying to make him as realistic as possible, and the reference photos were not be very helpful because he's a two-dimensional character. I'm ultimately got to a good final model, for both my 3D printed version as well as my sliced version.
In Part B, we were supposed to model an environment for our model in Part A. So, naturally I created the things that are actually in Plankton's natural environment. I created his restaurant, the Chum Bucket, and his computer wife, Karen. Those were pretty easy to create, mostly because the both of those were pretty geometric shapes, apart from some Cage Editing and extruding. They obviously aren't to scale in relation to each other, but I wanted each model to be obvious and visible. The hardest thing for me was getting different shapes to line up in the correct plane, so I used gumball a lot. I also downloaded the classes Chum Bucket font and got it in Rhino, then I made a cage edit bounding box around it, and curved the words so that it would fit along the curve of the actual building.
Part C was making joints out of wood. I used the file that was given to us, and I found a couple of joints that I liked, and that also fit the requirements. I took the files, and converted them into shapes that would work for the laser cutter, because I think those files were meant for a CNC machine. The reassembling and recreating took a little bit of time, and it probably would've been easier to create my own joints in the long run, but I really liked the shape of the joints. My favorite one was the snake one, but the others turned out nicely, too.
Overall, this lab was pretty fun, and I really enjoyed learning how to use the laser cutter. I think my final products all turned out pretty well. The laser cutter was a cool tool to use, and it was very nice how precise it was. This lab took a bit more time to prep to get to the final steps, but all that time put in can be seen in the final products.
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