Development

Creating a dandelion in solidworks, it is a great example of patterns in nature, keeping with my organic/floral theme. A pattern can be identified in its filaments which uniformly encompass a central ball form.

I created a single filament and then patterned them around the central revolve. The file size is large and encourages the software to lag which I am finding frustrating.

Here is a quick render which I think is successful. I have a applied green low gloss glass to the stem and frosted glass to its filaments, giving them a semi-transpearant finish. The model looks nice against the default orange background, but could be improved. I am having some connection problems which I hope to solve in 3DS Max.

Development

                                       Creating a model based off this precedent in particular:

A central cone with patterned ribbed forms, anchors many spiralling legs.

This keeps very much with the organic theme.

Playing with different textures, I felt this sandy material fit my model appropriately.

A pattern derivative of the sphere, recedes in size and encompasses a central revolve made in solidworks.

Their combination is very organic and reminiscent of their precedent.

Here is a quick render in 3DS Max, I've used lights to approximate a desert scenario because my model resembles a tree at home in an arid environment.

Some more sketches

Im thinking of working primarily in solidworks for this project, 3ds does however create some nice organic forms. I have an idea to alternate iterations of petal forms around a centre pin, allowing for their rotation.

Or possibly riffing of some forms inspired by dandelions as I think they would come out nicely as 3d models.

More precedents

Some sketches

Project 3 - Grow

Patterns are the precedents from which we will create three forms to be printed on a 3D printer. Here are some examples of floral precedents which I like the look of. I think I will take inspiration from these and riff off some of my models from project one, making iterations using these precedents as a guideline and narrative.

Final revised render

Here I have experimented with caustics and applied a glass-acrylic like map to my model in 3ds Max. My choice of lighting draws inspiration from the colours seen in my final flower iteration, they create a moody, perfumed ambience.

This however only a screenshot, the original TIF file is too large to upload.