4 - Kaleidocycle Triangles

These were a pain. They did not take that much time, especially considering my newly acquired stubborn refusal to spend too much time on a 3D design project.

That being said, the longest I spent on these were not the designs, nor the measuring and cutting out. Putting together the actual kaleidocycles were the biggest challenge I faced, especially the colored design. I could not for the life of me find any instructions at all, so I had to play around with the paper and hope that it did not rip.

Luckily, the damage I caused was minimal, and enough to get me a good enough grade.

I may create another one of these for fun, though next time I think I'll use a pattern rather than do the measurements myself.

3-3.1 Archimedian Solids and Surface Design

Snub Dodecahedron. A shape composed of pentagons and a lot of triangles. This project was very fun for me, and is the only project I can say I am actually proud of. However, it took about twelve hours, and after this, I swore that I would never spend that much time on a 3D design project again, even if that means sacrificing an A on future work. It is detrimental to my other classes, especially for projects that have nothing to do with my major (graphic design).

2.1 Platonic Solids

Here are some various "platonic solids" I have made. 

A platonic solid is described as regular [polyhedral] solids, and only these five shapes fit into this category.

The cube is a hexahedron, the pyramid a tetrahedron. The smaller shape to the right is an octahedron. The larger shape to the right is a dodecahedron, and the last shape on the very left is an icosahedron. Animations will be up in the next week or so, I have not gotten around to it yet.

These shapes were difficult for me to make, but considering the level of difficulty that projects we have been doing now are, they seem so easy.

1.1 Relief Designs

For our first project of the class, we had to choose from a list of 2-dimensional, geometric line drawings, and re-create them using paper. The difficult part of the assignment was the requirement to figure out how to make the projects interesting, while still only seeing lines from a top-view. 

As you can see, I had difficulty with this project - a lot of difficulty. The first design took about three hours, but the second took three tries and around twelve hours, though it looks like it only took   half  an hour. Maybe I will redo this before the end of the semester...but probably not.