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Friday, December 18, 2015

Rook Chess Piece

In the second unit of the course Rapid Prototyping, we studied Riemann sums, Conic sections, Forced perspective, Functions, Visible human project, PLA plastic, ABS plastic and learned how the 3D printer works. The things we focused more on 3D printing, how it works, what parts does it have and what kind of plastic the printer uses. We talked a lot about Forced perspective and how viewing something from different angles makes you see different things. Also learning about the visible human project was one of the key point of this project because it slices up the human body and takes a picture of every slice. For our action project, we were assigned a chess piece to create. I was assigned the rook with my partner. We went thought the process of innovating or creating something.  We went through the sketch process, the first clay model, the cardboard model and finally the end product 3D model. During this project, I had difficulties with getting the clay look like a rook and creating my piece on Tinkercad because every time I turned the view the pieces weren't on top of each other. I am proud of my 3D print and my Prezi.