Valyntine Cala's OBDF210 Blog

 After making a few adjustments to my 2D electrical outlet design, I was now ready to make a laser cut sample on wood. Though I've cut wood with a laser cutter before here at AUArts, this would be my first time engraving a design rather than cutting one out. I was quite excited—the smell of smoky wood and the texturing of engraving we saw in class was something I looked forward to. A few edits needed to occur to my design for it to be serviceable, however. It needed to be in greyscale,  needed to be the correct size for the laser cutter, and within the correct greyscale spectrum tailored to the laser cutter equipment. Here is the design put into monochrome (may be a bit different as I took the photo and then needed to adjust it afterward as well) It may be obvious at first glance that the background is an entirely different value—that's because it is. For my digital design, I enjoyed having a darker background to play around with, as I find values and colours more aestheticall...

 We're back with another "Extras" blog post back to back. Welcome! Here's a screw I made in Rhino. In class, we looked at a few machine screws and measured them with digital calipers. At the time, I didn't have access to digital calipers, so I managed to search up the dimensions of the screw online. The internet is a wonderful and vast resource of immeasurable information, thereby allowing me the secret knowledge of machine screw dimensions down to the precision of tenths of a millimeter. Exciting! For reference, I didn't actually use this table, but this is about what it looked like when I searched it up in class. Here is a rendered view of the screw. A few major points of focus for this class were learning how to create the threads for the screw by using the "Spiral" and "Sweep1" commands, and the creation of the cap, using cutting objects created with Loft, and ensuring there is "depth" to the hole, as there would be for a real...

This is an extra assignment completed for some extra credit and to also showcase my process in Rhino3D. There is also the element of blogging in general for the creation of this post. I do genuinely enjoy making blog posts and hope to be able to create my own in the future. I enjoy this process wholeheartedly! 😁 Here is a mug I created in Rhino3D. There is a 2D front view and the 3D shaded view, just taken as a direct and cropped screenshot from Rhino. Though one of the important stipulations for this assignment was the pre-making design process (sketching a cup, coming up with a design on paper, thumbing, etc.), I didn't have access to paper at the time of this assignment, and so constructed the object directly from my imagination to the design software. Here's a rendered view of the object. I thought the idea of an hourglass-like cup would be interesting. Though it is wholly unpractical as the drinking liquid would trickle into the top part very slowly (the opening to let ...

Once again, this assignment is quite late, but I'm glad I'm starting to catch up in this class, as I've found 3D modelling to be an engaging activity outside of my own 2D media practice. This is a full display of all the objects required for this assignment, though it should be important to note the tessellation for these objects is higher than the individual objects displayed, as I wanted to experiment a bit with it. Here are the three objects, with a lower tessellation count and a closer, "zoomed-in" view. Though this assignment wasn't particularly hard to execute on the material side, I did find a bit of difficulty in executing the creation "fabric/fluid" object, as I had to use a few new commands I'm not used to. Other than that, I think these renders turned out beautiful for the design I've created, and I could genuinely see myself using this design on fabric in the future (if time and resources, permit, of course 😂)

Though this is very late, I managed to finalize my images and research process in making this 2D Design in Rhino3D. Initially, I was inspired by electrical outlets found at the Calgary International Airport. Since I only had a flip phone, the images that I have to present aren't the most amazing, but I believe they capture a raw sense of interest in the world (even if all I have to go off in saying that is that they were taken on a flip phone instead of a smartphone, lol). Even in the low image quality, I found it fascinating how these electrical outlets possessed different prong structures and colours, as that's not usually standard for North American/ Canadian electrical outlets. They tend to follow the standard of the last image, with a beige or grey backing and holes for the plug-ins. I was mainly inspired by the second image—I chuckled when I saw the indents and horizontal prong. I thought that one looked like an old winking grandpa. As a first run through of my design, I ...

Castles are beautiful structures of medieval yore, and as my first assignment in this 3D Modelling and CAD class, I was instructed to create a 3D model of a castle in Rhino3D. To be frank, this assignment is actually late by a few weeks, and I encountered a few problems even with the knowledge I had in attending further classes. Namely, the flags on this design are combined with the caps of the castle pillars, making the flag, flagpole, and tower cap all red, when they should all be different colours. I also encountered struggles in ensuring my tower caps were aligned, as they were created with an incomplete curve, preventing me from properly aligning them with the towers. Even so, I enjoyed making this project, and rendering the final piece, as I think its simple design and quaint, cartoon-y colouring add to the charm of the piece. It may be late and a bit simple, but I think it serves to present an aim I have in my art in general—taking the complex and using technology to simplify, t...