Making A 3D Helmet

This is actually something I was working on before I started the wine glass, but that was before I started posting in the blog again. Unfortunately I don't remember many of the steps from before, so I'll only be able to tell you what I did today.

After editing  the mesh of the helmet so that it lined up with the drawing, I had to create the lower part of the helmet using the "Create Polygon Tool" and extrude it so that it matched up roughly with the upper part of the helmet. I'm going to end up connecting the two parts on Thursday, since that's when I have this class again.

Wine Glass Phase Two

The second phase of my wine glass. I actually did this on Wednesday, but I forgot to post my progress here. Sorry about that. Anyways, after I revolved the curve (mentioned in my last post), I had to duplicate the curve and delete the upper half of it so that I could use the bottom part as a guideline for the liquid. I revolved the guideline to make another shape that would end up being the liquid. I assigned a material (blinn) to both of the shapes and made the wine glass shape transparent so you could see the "liquid" inside of it. Afterwards I changed the color of the "liquid" to purple so that I didn't have a grey brick floating around in the wine glass.

Making a 3D Wine Glass

Today I used the program Maya to start making a 3D wine glass. I used the EP Curve Tool to trace the outline of the wine glass, making one line for the bottom of the glass, one for the middle, and one for the top. Afterwards I duplicated the middle-outline and moved it so it matched the inner edge of the wine glass, and I cut off the unnecessary remainder of the outline. After that, I combined the three outlines. I planned on revolving the outline by the end of class today, but the first time I combined the outlines Maya crashed :(.

3D-Printing

One of the things we have looked at in class is the impact of 3D-printing in the U.S. People can design just about anything and create a real life copy of it using a 3D-printer. The things that have been made so far vary from replacement parts for cars to air ducts for airplanes. A 3D printer can make anything so long as you have the materials to make it.

However, the ability to make almost anything is exactly what makes 3D-printing very controversial. With the ability to make almost anything, people can make blueprints for weapons, which could be posted on the internet and fall into the wrong hands.

Despite the fact that 3D-printing can be used for creating controversial things like weapons or weapon parts, it can also be used for medical purposes. Already prototypes for organs and body parts have been made. There have already been prints of hearts and fingers, using the patients cells. Unfortunately, the parts don't work just yet, but researchers plan on getting them to work in the near future.

I'm Back!

Sorry about the inactivity on this website, I haven't really had anything to put on here :(. However, I'm taking a 3D Graphics class now that will allow me to post stuff on here again. Expect there to be a new post on what I'm working on in the near future.

Final 3

The last repost. Sorry about the reposting all of that.

Final 2

The second repost.