Michelle Dean
From MHCGraphics
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[edit] About the Artist
Michelle is a member of the class of 2009 at Mount Holyoke, majoring in Asian Studies with a possible minor in religion. She lives with her mother and father in a small town called Ashburnham, Massachusetts where it is always 10 degrees colder than the rest of the state. Michelle is a fan of science fiction and fantasy, and likes to read, watch movies, and play video games. She also watches Japanese anime and reads Japanese and some Korean manga, and likes to cosplay.
- She also likes animals; family pets include four dogs: a rat terrier named Milo, a fox terrier named Rover, a chihuahua named Bambi, and a mix terrier named Daisy, a cat named Kyo, two nameless budgies, and an Icelandic horse named Dagne.
[edit] Pertaining to Food
Ashburnham, being a very small town, does not contain any restaurants. Michelle's favorite restaurant, despite being an hour and a half drive from her house, is Amherst Chinese Food in downtown Amherst. Other restaurants she likes are Outback Steakhouse, and Rainforest Cafe.
[edit] Lab 2
To achieve this image, I created an object made of six spheres for the flower head, then created a new object that combined the flower head object with a stem. The petals were of an undefined color so I could add a variety to my vase. The vase and the table are each a separate object, the vase including a sphere, a cylinder, and a cone, and the table including two cylinders and a cone.
I then added everything to the scene and adjusted heights accordingly for it all to interact properly, rotating the flowers before moving them so that they would all fit in the vase without occupying the same flower-shaped space.
I also added a bright light (.6 intensity) in the front, and a dim light (.4 intensity) in the back, so the scene would look good from multiple angles.
Then I added a gray cube, flattened it and stretched it out to form a floor for shadows to appear on.
[edit] Lab 3
The chest is a hollow half cylinder made through the difference function and a hollow cube also made through the difference function.
One toy uses the difference function and a couple prisms. Another toy uses the lathe function on an octagon polygon. The third toy uses a mesh pyramid.
Each object is a group. Two of the toys contain smaller groups within the bigger one.
[edit] Lab 4
The tent is built of two mesh objects of a custom material (thin silk) replicaated and rotated.
The sign uses difference functions for the rings of the chain and the indent of the sign. Also, custom material rough wood.
The moon is the result of a difference function. It is a custom material (moon rock) with lights inside.
Inside the tent is a mirror of custom materials (gold and reflective) decorated using the difference function. Also a table of polished wood, a table cloth of black and red velvet, a crystal ball, and a candelabra with iron, wax, and lit flames.
[edit] Lab 5
The scene from the front:
The colums are cylinders with smaller cylinders cut out and two cubes at the top and bottom. The arches are cubes with cylinders cut out. The flower pot is the one from my lab 2. There is a spotlight shining on it all to give realistic shadows for the illusion.
The scene from an angle:
The scene from the side:
[edit] Lab 6
To create the windows, a multiadd function was used to replicate a bar for the lattice, then to replicate the glass diamonds. The wall uses a simple difference, and a multiadd for the crenellations, and then another multiadd to create four walls.
[edit] Lab 7
The first half of the lab, bezier curves. The leaves on the bush and the flag are bezier curves.
And for the second half of the lab, an animation of three balls being juggled by an invisible agent:
For this, I defined three simple juggling balls by using a difference to get a wedge, then putting four wedges together. The juggling motion is defined with three different Bezier curves. I got the curves through trial and error, which is why they are not totally true to how juggling actually looks.
[edit] Final Project
My final project is a castle with an interior room furnished and decorated.
Here is a picture of the castle.
Many multiAdds with a bevelled cube of a custom material were used to create the castle, and a new function was used to create the conical roofs.
Here are three pictures of the inside room, one from the same camera position as the castle picture, two from positions within the room boundary.
The curtains are patch meshes, everything is a custom material except the candle wicks, which are just black plaster.
