Class hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:50-2:10, room Computer Science 2129.
email: george@cs.sunysb.edu
Phone: (631) 632-8959
Office hours: tuesday and thursday 2:15-3:30, and by appt.
I was able to build the student .stl files that were sent to me in the last week of class. Here is a high-res image. You can pick up your project at our final meeting, May 19.
For people using later versions of Maya outside the campus labs, who need to convert to our version, here are some links to possible solutions: (1) (2) (3) I haven't tried them, so can't endorse them. Let me know what works for you.
Although this book addresses architects, everything in it is very relevant to computer-designed sculpture.
1. Platonic Solids, plus read pp. 71-86 in the text.
2. Use Great Stella to assembly polyhedral blocks, plus read pp. 91-107 in the text.
3. Use Great Stella to design an original form that you will make from paper. (We will print out the nets onto heavy paper for you to cut and assemble.) Have the file ready to display and print in class, tuesday, Feb 24.
4. Print a screenshot of your answer to HW#2 Question #7 (after modifying it as described in class) and hand in the one sheet of paper thursday Feb 26.
5. Make a paper sculpture using a net from Great Stella. Bring it in to class by thursday March 5. We have heavy colored paper (card stock) you can use. You can take some and print on it using your own printer, or you can print using our printer if you meet with Alex.
6. Something in the style of Jamnitzer, due thursday March 12, plus read pp. 109-125 in text.
7. Maya exercises with bumps and curves, due tuesday March 24, plus read pp. 381-396 in text.
8. STL file of icosahedron due March 31.
9. Project illustrating ideas from the course. It can be physical (in the materials of your choice) or an stl file (ready to fabricate, with no backwards faces or unmatched edges). Include a one-page text description of what it is, your design choices, and a sketch of how you made it. Also include a full-page photo or screen shot. Due tuesday Apr 14.
10. STL file to build. Due tuesday April 28: Prepare an .stl file of a visually interesting sculpture we can build on the Selective Laser Sintering machine. I will recommend in class which of your projects I think is best, for you to refine and convert. But you may start a new project if you prefer. It can not have parts too small; if it is scaled to fit in a 3-inch sphere its thinnest parts should be at least 0.1 inch thick. Export to .obj from Maya and convert .obj to .stl with the explore3D program below. Using VisCam, look through its slices to make sure there are no backwards faces. Using Boolean Union, try to have a single object with no intersecting faces, but some intersection of separate objects may be unavoidable if the Union operation fails. Do not email us your (large) stl file. Put it someplace where we can download it and email me and Alex the URL.
11. Wormball. We will start it in class. Here are instructions to finish it.
12. Class presentation on a sculptor of your choice who uses computers technology in the design or fabrication. Make a 5-minute web page or PowerPoint presentation with visuals you can present to the class in the last week.
13. Final Project is due during regular final exam period. No exam, just a presentation. It can be physical or a buildable stl file. Hand in a picture and short description, as in item 9 above. If it is an stl file, have it someplace where you can download it from a web browser to show the class.
(PowerPoint format)
2. Polyhedra - Historical
3. Polyhedra - Modern
4. Maya - Geometric Forms
5. Maya - Organic Geometric Forms
6. Triangulated Surfaces and STL Format
7. Orderly Tangles
8. Symmetry
9. Knots and Surfaces
10. Maya - Human forms
Office hours: wednesdays 4:00-5:00, room CS2110
Also, we may construct one large group sculpture to place on campus if I can arrange all the details.
