Just to be different…

I’m going to include a picture on this post because as one adage goes, pictures convey a thousand words (or something like that). Of course, this could just be my subtle way of saying that I’m too lazy/busy to be writing a 1000 words here.

This was the model I started with during week 1 in a subject called Virtual Environments. Being more of a 2D rather than a 3D-inclined person, it took me almost 10 hours instead of the recommended 7 hours to do this simple-looking model. It doesn’t help that the sides of the base are all at an angle of 6 degrees – there’s a requirement that the horizontal containers should be at an angle of 180 degrees (so that people going inside won’t slide off; even so, it’s hard to imagine this model being built in reality) and so we should used ‘entrance plinths’ to support them from below. Of course, these plinths should be at a correct angle so that they could do this purpose AND be flushed to the ground.

 Anyways, I’m actually not graded on this model. I’m currently being driven mad by my new model because unlike this first model, the students are not provided with templates. I have a midnight deadline tomorrow in which I have to submit pictures of stuff I’ve worked on from Week 2 to Week 5. This would include working drawings (axonometric ones), a ‘prototype’ computer model, 2-4 version of the computer model, and a final cardboard model photographed in at least 2 sorts of artistic lighting. These pictures are supposedly submitted online, which is great; however, I didn’t expect that the broadband at home would stop working at just this crucial time. So now, I’m aiming to finish the final model by tomorrow morning so that I could go to the university in the afternoon and upload the pictures, and if something goes wrong (this subject’s website apparently crashed last semester due to the enormous sizes of the pictures submitted; for this reason, we are taught how to batch-resize photos in Photoshop by Week 1) I could run to my tutor and probably personally submit the stuff though my USB. Okkkk… hopefully this seemingly logical plan would help me prevent myself from going mad. *Deep breath*