A few weeks ago in a seminar, I was sitting behind a professor and noticed that his t-shirt had a pretty cool picture of a solid shape on it. I drew the picture, and decided I would love to have a 3-d version. My original (and, now, long-term) goal was to make the solid represented in the picture by a piece of wood. Wandering around the craft store, I decided foam was a bit more feasible for me right now. So anyway... I'll just give you a link to the album I put all of the pictures in (click the picture for the album):
I also made a little video of me spinning the thing, to give an idea what it looks like from more angles.
This was my first attempt at this project, and my first attempt carving something out of foam. I'm honestly fairly pleased with the result. Certainly I see room for improvement though, and plan on trying again soonish. I've got two more blocks of foam still...
2 comments:
Nice job for a first-time carving. All the visualization during math work must help.
If you're going to carve much foam, consider a breathing mask (or at least a paper filter mask). Foam dust is rough on the lungs (as surfboard shapers know, http://www.fiberglasssupply.com/pdf/msds/Clarkmsds.pdf).
@geekstats I didn't even think about that, thanks for the tip (and compliment)
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