Just for any case I'll post a small reflection on this blog as well. The main reflection is in our journal and this is more like a summary. Project Project almost done and it makes me both happy and sad. It was one of the most interesting and enjoyable projects in this two years of studying.... Continue Reading →
Website
Our technical team was very busy with back end and coding our prototype, so I wanted to help them out at least with something and make front end development of our website. My coding skills got rusty so i decided not to make life more complicated and use one of bootstrap templates and technical teacher... Continue Reading →
Building W.8
Another big post, sorry but during the week there's not much time to write a bunch of small ones:p Also should warn you that it will be a lot, lot of text and very little pictures unfortunately. We started from planning how we will attach the legs to the pedestal. Last week we cut a... Continue Reading →
Acrylic shapes measurement
After we drew on the base the placement of our crystals, I needed to calculate how much of acrylic plastic do we need. To do this in illustrator i created all the needed shapes of the right sizes and placed it on the sheet, oh offered sizes in gamma (we went there for research earlier).... Continue Reading →
New map pattern
Since we couldn't laser cut wood we had, and the way to make holes was drill i wanted to make new pattern from circles to see how it gonna look at the end. I measured all the available drill sizes so in case if testing will go good and our team will agree on this... Continue Reading →
Building W.7
It's time to update our progress for the last week. We did got some results to share. At the beginning of the week we didn't have much, and we saw that other teams started building already so we got a mini panic attack and decided that we can also start building the lower part for now... Continue Reading →
Building pan
So it's week 7 and as a builder in the team I had to make a plan so we could start building as soon as possible. I decided to do it in the small steps. First as we decided to use the given wood for us I needed to know the measurements of it, so... Continue Reading →
Testing the design
To make our design not only pretty but also usable we needed to test it as well. The feedback for the first design wasn't the best. Even though they liked our idea but there wasn't clear what that was and how it supposed to work also the map wasn't visible and general look wasn't the... Continue Reading →
Materials
This time we decided to use more reliable materials for our installation, so it would be easier to give it a professional look. So far we are planning to use wood for outer part and acrylic plastic for inner part. The lower part of our installation we are planing to make from hard wood provided... Continue Reading →
Finishing touches to the new prototype
After Alexandra made a new sketches and build the model in maya to visualize our concept I wasn't completely happy with the end result. There still was something what bothered me and seemed out of the place. So I took a file and decided to experiment and see what is possible to do. First I... Continue Reading →
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