World from the Water Tower

World from the Water Tower, a photo by Liam Gilbertson on Flickr.

This is my polarised panoramic shot from atop the Maungaraki Water Tower for DSDN144 Digital Photographics. Suprisingly as nice as it was having a clear day to do the panoramic shot, I think it may well have been easier to make a world out of a photo that had clouds in it! Maybe next time :)

Panoramic Photo

Here is the link for my panoramic photo, taken from the top of the Maungaraki Water Tower

Solidworks Tutorials

Definitely the tutorial that gave me the most grief, though in doing so helped me understand the importance of having fully defined sketches.

 

Solidworks Tutorials

Here are some screenshots from making the assembly from the Solidworks tutorials. Had a little bit of trouble getting them to go together, but I got there in the end.

 

 

 

Solidworks Tutorials

Check out my rack ;)

Drawing Words

Here is my drawing of the word "Duality" for the exercise from the first DSDN104 studio.

I drew this because I thought of the phrase "birds of a feather", reversed it on itself and tried to imagine a "bird of two feathers" and ended up with a feather of two birds. Just a little confusing eh?

Solidworks Tutorials

Here are the finished models for the basic Solidworks tutorials from the first 104 lab. As easy as Solidworks makes it to design 3D models, I can also see that there is a phenomenal ammount of functionality in this program which may take more than a few tutorials to learn :)

Individual Work - Axonometric

Liam Gilbertson - Individual

Precedent - Source: http://dsdn101.blogspot.co.nz/p/readings.html

For this drawing I decided to research a technical drawing style used in Architecture, and found that many buildings were drawn in an Axonometric perspective. I found this intriguing because despite distorting an image to unrealistic proportions, Axonometric perspectives allow you to measure dimensions directly on and off your drawing without scaling as you would with, say, isometric. My precedent also showed a range of motion which I have replicated and tried out using varying line weight to show movement.