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Memory Lane

From the first day until now, this class has been an adventure every day.
My first attempt at Rhino6 was with the castle, and honestly it gave me a false impression that this class would be "easy"



 Needless to say, I had a lot to learn.
The longest of the projects for me was the 2D project, mainly because I couldn't think of any 2D designs for the life of me, at least until I came up with this.



With the Disassemble assignment it was anything but easy or rudimentary.
For that project I had to learn surface modeling a week before we learned it in class in order for me to complete my piece.



For the wearables project I had problems conceptually until I remembered that it didnt have to be a ring! I ended up creating a pendant that revolved around a glass tool that is very important to me, Diamond Shears.


I sent the design to Shapeways and got back an amazing looking pendant back that I'm completely obsessed with!

And finally we come to the chess set. For this project I again struggled to think of a design, so I just played around until I found one that I liked.


The idea that I was running with was the creation of a chess set that is semi-minimalistic, and also modernist.

I found that this design shows the simplicity that I was looking for, along with the elegance.

Unfortunately I do not have a photo of the IRL shapeways piece, or the IRL chess set pieces. But I can assure you that they turned out just as I had hoped!

Thank you for joining me on this journey.

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