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CSCI 140 Spring 2005
Ken Allen
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Ken Allen Desk Scene
 Relaxed 
Inspiration

Well, I admit that there wasn’t really all that much to this scene.  I did however want my lamp to portray my original drawing.  It seems to have come off quite well.  I’m a big fan of motorcycling, thus the pictures of motorcycles on the walls.  I hope you enjoy this work, thank you.

Objectsbox.lwoKen Allen
 desk.lwoKen Allen
 glass2.lwoKen Allen
 Ken Allen Pencil.lwoKen Allen
 lamp_2.lwoKen Allen
 paper1.lwoKen Allen
 paper2.lwoKen Allen
 paper3.lwoKen Allen
 poster1.lwoKen Allen
 poster2.lwoKen Allen
room1a.lwoKen Allen
 
TexturesLightwood.tgaunspecified
 Dented bronze textureunspecified
 Antique Metal textureunspecified
 TeakWood.tgaunspecified
 Brass textureunspecified
 Glass 3 textureunspecified
 Custom texture  modified Glass 4unspecified
 Brass_RayTrace textureunspecified
 Custom texture  modified Glass 3unspecified
 L-Wood.iffunspecified
 WoodTile.tgaunspecified
 Modified MultiFractal textureunspecified
Problems and Solutions

I wanted to create a light bulb that was clear, but that ended up being a little more work than I wanted to at the moment, so I decided to go with a white opaque coated light bulb that doesn’t look all that bad.  I ended up making it slightly translucent and passing a point light through it as well as making it an illuminated surface.  The other problem that I ran into was creating decent looking handles for my drawers.  I ended up spending quite a bit of time working on those and had to take and create the top half of one side of the handle and extrude and arc while matching points to splines I made to mate the outer and inner edges.  After finishing the extrusions, I took and mirrored the model twice to make the top and the other side, then welded them together by merging the points.

Time Frame

-        lamp and handles took about an hour a piece
-        desk approximately an hour (minus handles)
-        glass about 1.5 hours
-        pencil 5 minutes
-        posters and papers 5 minutes each
-        room and shelf about 15-25 minutes each


References

rail extrude for the lamp stem
past knowledge from modeling in 3d studiomax