testing the magic pen..

the dennis technique

i love this technique. i think that this is a very easy process to get a hold on as long as you know the tools a little bit. i am testing to see how much of the sky should be in the image. with a little more practice i think it will be renamed the shawn technique.

lighting

this project was a little troubling with the use of laser cutting. i found that it was easier to reverse construct this luminaire by drawinging it in 2d first then constructing it into a 3d image.

Emergent Forms...

i used this sketch overlay and made last weeks assignment into a free standing luminare. i wanted teh same quality of a small elegant looking lamp that could dramatically impact the environment.

Shadows Know......

after pinning the earlier posting up and standing back looking at it i could see that the image was not as strong as i would have liked due to the color and text selection. so i went back and looked at some text that could enhance the story that i am telling and changed the color background to something stonger.

Basic and Advanced Fillet

Basic: When this option is on, a simple arc fillet is applied between the two selected shapes. Fillet Radius: The value entered in this field determines the size of the arc of the fillet. Note that the size of the fillet should be appropriate (not too small and not too large) relative to the pair of faces that will be filleted, or otherwise the operation will fail.

Advanced: When this is selected the advanced fillet method is applied.
Circular, Elliptical, Bevel: These options determine the cross section of the fillet.
They are the same as the edge options found in the smooth plain rounding and smooth control rounding (see section 4.12.2). Note that, unlike the Basic fillet, the pick order and pick locations are significant for the Advanced fillet. For best results the faces should be selected using the On Edges option in the Pick Options dialog to identify the fillet faces. The first face selected is used as the orientation face for the Elliptical and Bevel cross sections. The first edge selected is used as the orientation edge for variable radius/distance fillets. For closed face edges, the click point is used as the start for variable radius/distance fillets.

Fillet

Either the prepick or postpick method can be used with this tool. With the postpick method, the Fillet tool is selected first and then two faces are picked.