For this assignment, my idea was to explore varying difficulties of objects just to see, formally speaking, what can be made and how things fit together while still maintaining a planar surface. I used this assignment purely for the purposes of practice and ideation for the next stage, taking the time to seek out different opportunities. Without further ado, these are my geometric creations:
1. I knew that I wanted to start with something simple to give myself room for building. This is a simple square rotated on top of another square, connected using the loft feature. Because it was an easier creation I wanted to show a couple different ways of unwrapping it.
2. Moving into more complex shapes, I still wanted to maintain, roughly, the same difficulty as the previous creation. Again, because of the simplicity, here are two ways of unwrapping it.
3. Here is where things started to get more complicating. I added more layers. The unrolling process was a bit more difficult than the previous two, but still pretty straight forward.
4. This one proved to be more complex than I originally gave it credit for. I thought that adding a triangle in the middle of two squares would give a sort of hour glass shape but soon realized that it was no longer planar (as far as a single surface goes, I know that adding more triangles to the side would have closed the shape). I do like the way that this one turned out; if I were to ever make a shape where openings are needed, I now know how to unfold them.
5. This was a sort of recreation of the one previous. I added two smaller squares inside of the base and then raised them at varying heights. I like that it gives a very abstract feel and also sort of looks like a chimney.
6. This was made purely by accident. I wanted to start with shapes on the z-axis and explore where it would take me. After forming the top and bottom squares, I noticed that the shape, from above, was beginning to look like an 'M' so I added the line on the bottom between the opposite square as the central connector. The unfolding process was very difficult for this one! The single surfaces in the middle caused many problems, which is why the shape had to be rolled out in the format shown below.
7. Here again I was exploring items already standing on the z-axis. With one oversized triangle between two smaller and randomly placed squares, I thought that this object sort of resembled a space ship after it was finished.
8. The unwrapping process was again very difficult for this creation. The 'wings' between the larger shapes kept overlapping so this took me a few tries to get it to where it is right now. The shape, to me, resembles a green house space station (could be from the same scene as the image pictured above).
9. This is the result of randomly placing squares and lines. The filling process was very tedious and took a few tries before every plane that I wanted to be filled was actually a surface. To unravel it, the process was taking far too long and was incredibly complicated as a single object so I split it directly down the middle and save time (and being that both halves are the same shape, its just a process of re-creation and then re-attaching at the end).
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