3D day 2

Day 2 of 3D design consisted of us making a structure using only spaghetti to hold up 3 plastic balls that wasn't allowed to touch each other In addition to creating this structure we was only allowed to use twenty pieces of spaghetti and a glue gun. Before doing this we did quick designs in our sketch books of different ways to do this structure using different medias. After doing this I decided to work in a pair as it would be easier to complete together and we would be able to make a much larger scale. However, in doing this we had to make the structure big enough in able to hold down 6 plastic balls. I really enjoyed doing this exercise as I wasn't specifically following a design to make this structure but producing ideas as I was creating it. I think my structure was successful as it held up the 6 balls nicely and worked really well when taking a picture using the small models to show it was a large scale. 

At the end of the day we all laid out our structures after covering them with card in able to protect them from breaking. The tutors then used a basketball to drop onto our structures to see if it would break or if it would still hold. 

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my initial designs to my structure with where the balls would be held

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Drawn with eyes closed to experiment different ideas

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Beginning my sculpture with my partner stabilising the bottom to hold up the structure.

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progression of my structure

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structure complete holding 6 balls without touching each other 

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My first image of my structure held up against light to show the shadows behind. In addition to the light I placed two small blue tac men on to the structure to make it appear more architectural and to show a bigger scale

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Another image of my structure using a darker setting

     

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This photo I took from above to capture the different shadows made and also to see the blue tac man on the top of my structure. 

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A zoomed in image to show the small blue tac man

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An image showing my structure filled with paper to protect it being hit by a basketball. In doing this it has turned my structure into something completely different but I like the difference and how I had changed it to something else using different materials. I purposely made the lighting of this image to be dark as I found it interesting with the light shining right on to the structure and to block out other light so the viewer is focused on the structure and the shadows. 

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A zoomed in image to show the blue tac man sitting on my structure.