3DD - Fruit holder

Week 6 - Tuesday

To start off the day we were given the task of drawing several designs for a fruit holder that were to take in form over function. We also had to use the techniques of yesterdays drawing to inspire our designs:

Once we had done this, we were given 20 pieces of spaghetti and glue guns in order to make one of our designs that could to balance 3 balls and none of the balls could touch.  

The first two pictures below are of my original attempt at completing the task however I decided that the design was fairly boring and very symmetrical so I went on to add more aspects to the product.

 Once I had completed my final design I took picture of it using a spot light in order to highlight the product and show shading. I also used some scale people to show how big the ball holder was.

 

After lunch we were then giver the even harder task of using paper to protect our structure from a downwards force! To to this we were given 3 pieces of paper and glue. At first I really struggled with how to protect my product and I couldn't think of any ways in which I could use the paper! However after a few failed ideas i tried spiraling the paper which seemed to be very strong so i made a few more and placed them inside my design. I then used the spotlight and scale people again to highlight the model.

Once everyone had finished modifying there models we were then told the a basketball would be dropped on top of our product to see if our strengthening technique had work.

To my surprise my structure actually stayed complete and even though after the ball being dropped on it twice, it didn't stand up anymore, it was still one of the more successful designs in the group.

 Overall today has been a good insight as to what maybe on the 3DD pathway. It was good fun to be making models as that is was what I really enjoy doing. I believe that this is the pathway that is going to be best suited to me and I hope my last day of this week will be just as good.