CSE325
Computers and Sculpture
Due tuesday, March 24
For each of these five questions, generate a Maya file that
could be built on an RP machine. Name the file for problem n
"HW-lastname-IDNumber-n" and make a clear screen shot of each object,
with the same file name. Send the screen shot of the first four
(not the Maya file) as attachments in a single email to
the TA,
with a subject line: "CSE325-HW". (The screen shots should be .jpg,
.gif, or .png format.) For #5, have a printed
description and screen shot to hand in, as described below.
1. Make some links of a bumpy chain, as in the image above. The links
should be free to move, i.e., they should not intersect. Instead of the
above short straight chain, make your chain a loop, that (if built)
could be worn as a short bracelet.
2. Above is a scanning elecron microscope image of examples of an
interesting type of crystal. Make a Maya file of a single
crystal shaped like a typical example.
3. Make a Maya file suggestive of a pollen grain, like one from the
above photomicrograph. It could be as simple as the above purple
thing, or bumpier. (Hint: Using Maya's "Selection Constraints"
can make this easier, e.g., you can choose all vertices with a given
number of neighbors. Note that "Subdivide/Quads" creates vertices of
degree four but "Chamfer" creates vertices of degree three.)
4. Make an interwoven pair of smooth surfaces, similar to the above
cube/octahedron
pair, but your curves might be different. The two parts should not
intersect, i.e., they should be free to
move slightly if we built it on an RP
machine.
5. Design an original geometric sculpture with Maya that you
would
like to build on a rapid prototyping machine. It can be angular or
organic. Ideally, it should be a single boundary mesh with no
intersecting faces and no "backfaces" showing. But it is OK if there
are several objects combined, understood as their Boolean union. You
should understand it
well
enough that you can reproduce it from scratch. In class, hand in one
printed page of text
describing what it is and how it is constructed, plus a screen shot
image. Have the Maya file available to display in class, as I
will choose some to build.
Grading note: The last question is weighted more than the
others. You can get extra credit on any of them for something extra
cool.