Sunday, September 20, 2009

No Class 9/25

Class is canceled for 9/25. Please finish and post the last two exercises (the site plan, and honeycomb) to the blog by the next class time. You should also be working on your house projects. The deadline for the house project creeps up fast, so stay on top of it.
If you have any questions e-mail me at erik.sundquist@fiu.edu.

Friday, September 18, 2009

High Rise




Cubes


Assignment 3 Honeycomb


















































































































































In the polygons menu, go to create > polygon primitives > cylinder and click on box.
Click ‘rest tool’, under create settings Axis divisions: 6, Height divisions: 5
Click in perspective window.
Delete he top and bottom faces of the object.
Select the middle vertices of the object and go to mesh > average vertices and click on box.
Make ‘smooth amount’ 4
Select the center vertices of the object and repeat average vertices.
Go to edit mesh > extrude. In the channel editor, make ‘local translate’ = .05
Duplicate object and snap to the first object
Go to mesh > combine
Delete the adjoining faces of objects
Go to edit mesh > bridge and click on box
In the bridge options, make settings: Bridge type = Linear Path, Divisions = 1 or 2 and Smooth angle = 0
Duplicate object and snap to object, repeat combine and bridge.
In the center triangle openings, use the arrow to select the mid vertices of the triangle.
Go to edit mesh > merge to center
Press 3 to see if there are any openings
Repeat duplicate, combine, bridge, and merge vertices
Use the lattice and non-linear deformers to transform honeycomb
Render

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009