Journal Entry For
Module 4 - Rise and Shine
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Stage 1 - Part 1
The modelling of stage 1 was pretty straightforward from the instructions. The major steps followed are:
- Creating the arc-shaped wall. The parameters that can be varied are the radius of the arc, the height of the wall, the length of the arc (by varying the angles)
- Panelising the surface - Here, to create nearly square grid points, I followed a reverse approach by setting the size of the panel first. From there, I arranged the grid points by using the formula - Step of (curve length/panel size) Curve length along the surface and Z-axis respectively. This ensured that the grid points were nearly square.
- Loading Image data
- Imparting the Image colours to the surface
The original image looked like this:
The image mapped to the surface looks like this. I have noticed that decreasing the panel size helped in increasing the granularity of the image mapping.
Stage 1 - Part 2
The process of mapping the image to the surface remained the same as in Part 1.
- I used a sine function with parameters such as the length of the wall, height, amplitude, and number of waves that can be varied.
- In the fourth step, for adjusting the thickness of the wall panels, I followed the same procedure as mentioned. I made the thickness dependent on both hue and brightness by generating 2 height values from them and adding weights to them. (w1*ht1 + w2*ht2)/ (w1 + w2). These weights can be varied using an integer slider.
The original image I used is:
The final model of the wall looked like this:
