{"id":1156,"date":"2015-11-10T03:19:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T03:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikelberman.com\/pgraff\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2015-11-10T03:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T03:36:23","slug":"self-portrait-helmet-ring-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikelberman.com\/pgraff\/self-portrait-helmet-ring-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait: Helmet Ring (Grace)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to change my idea from utilizing sound amplitude to create geometric shapes to a facial portrait using paneling.\u00a0<\/span>My final self-portrait was a armored, anglo saxon helmet ring. The helmet on the ring symbolizes how I always tend to think by making with my hands.\u00a0<\/span>I feel as if I\u2019m always in \u201cbattle mode\u201d when making things. I am also a huge fan of old medieval movies or sci-fi fantasy films like Lord of the Rings<\/strong>. The armored helmet represents the way I feel when working. Thus, my project is an abstract self-portrait in the form of an accessory (ring).<\/span><\/p>\n

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***A special thanks to Jaskirat for teaching me how to change mesh faces to surfaces.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>It was overall an exploration on using Grasshopper and Rhino to create shapes in the following steps:<\/span><\/p>\n

1.) I first learned to find my ring size (5.5), which is 16 mm in diameter and add it as a place holder onto Rhino<\/span><\/p>\n

2.) Then I created a circle and extruded the shape to create a ring. I used the \u201cFilletEdge\u201d command to create the soft curved edges for the ring.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.) I downloaded a pre-existing head (low-poly model).<\/span><\/p>\n

4.) Looked into the tutorial from Jaskirat (vimeo<\/a>) to convert from mesh to surface.<\/span><\/p>\n

5.) I pulled the raw low-poly head and created surfaces for half of the head.<\/span><\/p>\n

6.) I selected the panels on half-headed model to make a helmet<\/span><\/p>\n

7.) Then, created a geometry (the shape pattern for my helmet). A square was lofted with an octagon.<\/span><\/p>\n

8.) Then I deleted the ears, nose, mouth, and eyes until, only the skull portion was left. (Resulting in a helmet form)<\/span><\/p>\n

9.) The surfaces inside the helmet were extruded to provide a thicker layer.<\/span><\/p>\n

10.) Finally, the helmet was mirror to create a full head and was stacked onto the ring.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conclusion:<\/p>\n

The most important takeaway was learning paneling of the octagon shapes into a desired pattern which,\u00a0<\/span>was then wrapped around the head. For my final project, I hope to work on the previous (CSV data on body motion)\u00a0<\/span>project to create different types of earrings<\/strong> (Voroni, Paneling patterns etc) <\/span><\/p>\n

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