Sara Todd
From MHCGraphics
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[edit] About Me
Hello World. And yes, that's totally a programming pun.
Well, I'm a first year English Major who reads way too much and knows Pride and Prejudice nearly word for word. Yay me! 
Outside of that I consider myself a "Curiosity Major." I'm dabbling here and there, trying to grab up as much random and interesting knowledge as I can before I have to settle down. Science, technology, history, psychology . . . you name it.
I'm from Podunk, Maine. Which means I've lived all over the Pine Tree State and think of all of it as the middle of nowhere. Which is how I like it. Trees and beaches and shingled houses. It's a beautiful place to live.
[edit] Computer Experience
All of my friends are gamers. My boyfriend and four - count 'em, four - of my best friends are computer graphics majors. And we're all major 1337 geeks.[1] G0 1337 ch1xxorz! So I've picked up a lot of the lingo over the years, and a lot of the ideas. I can reel off WoW quests and YouTube videos and code formats and webcomics by the dozens . . . but I've rarely ever actually played, used, or seen any of them. I mostly just consider myself a professional appreciator. So it's really cool to have a class like CS 110 where I can actually use these things I've been talking about for years.
[edit] Personal Biases
PCs forever. Windows is king . . . so long as you pretend that Vista is a bad dream.
[edit] Favorite Restaurant
"Pedro O'Hara's" [2] in Brunswick, ME. Can you name any other restaurant where the burritos and enchiladas are as delicious as the corned beef and mashed potatoes?
I didn't think so.
[edit] Classwork
[edit] Lab Number Two
Here's the first image lab, just a simple objects grouping. The flower is a grouping of spheres and a cylinder for the stem, the grass is made of a group of cones strung together at angles and then repeated over and over.
[edit] Lab Number Three
Decided to go all out on this one. The swing set is a group containing chains made by intersecting and differencing a cylinder with a series of spheres, and a difference for the seat. The merry-go-round platform is a sweep, the inner cylinder is a difference. The pyramid jungle gym was tricky. I laid a net of cylinders together to form a graph-shape, then intersected them with a mesh pyramid. I then differenced a pyramid from a cone and used the outer edges to cover the gym's corners. The flowers and grass translated over from my first lab.
[edit] Lab Number Four
Part One
My material was orange colored, mostly transparent, slightly reflective, with a high diffusion and specularity. The flower was made by rotating a parantheses-shaped yellow piece (a sphere differenced from a sphere) around and around until I thought it looked good.
Part Two
The pocketwatch material is a metallic bronze for the shell and a clear glass for the lens, with a white pearly substance for the watchface. The "shirt" material is just a rough matte material. The outer ring of the watch was a lathe, as was the little circle that holds the chain. The lens shape and also the round back of the watch (not visible) are a difference from a sphere. The watch hands are made by intersecting the edges of two circles, and then scaling them to different lengths. The winder was a difference of multiple cubes from the edge of a cylinder. The chain is a carry-over from the swing chains in Lab Two. The pocket top was an intersection of an oval with a rectangle to get the rounded corners, and then the man's body is a group of cubes and cylinders. The buttons were several differences out of a sphere, made of the same metal as the watch.
[edit] Lab Number Five
Just a happy little sailboat, sailing on the sea. (Mostly just differences and grouping, the flag is a difference.)
What? It's actually a woman's tattoo! Legasp!!! (The woman's body is just differences and grouping, the shirt, skin, and earring are new materials, the headband is a lathe, the background is a billboard, the scene uses a spotlight.)
[edit] Lab Number Six
Many thanks to Meredith Bartelstein for her kick-ass clouds. This image is for the replication lab. The rain and flowers are randomly placed. The flowers also show up as a random material. The umbrella handle is a torus, the heart is illuminated by spotlights, the rest is old news. Is this metaphorical? You tell me.
[edit] Lab Number Seven
Part One
An image made using bezier curves, lathed to create a candlestick. Not too much else new -- the scene uses some new materials, a woodgrain surface image, and a spotlight.
Part Two
An animation made of a clock (largely built from the basic shape of my pocket watch) whose hands rotate. The ratio of the hands' motion to each other is correct, even if they're sped up. The banner and chalkboard are billboards.
[edit] Final Project!!!!!
MY TOOOOOMMMMBBBB!!!!!!!!!! I'm so proud of it!!! There are WAY too many objects in there to describe them all, but I'll cover a few down here. The walls are billboards, the lighting is one dim orange light and some spotlights. (Thank you to Shara and Charli for helping me make the necklaces and jewels work!!!)
The sarcophagus, my piece de resistance. It's made of many things, the main body being a patch mesh, the heiroglyphics a billboard.
This is the transparent patterned material sarcophagus I layered over the gold sarcophagus to get the hammered gold effect.
A close up of the head. The nose and lips are patch meshes, the rest mostly just intersections and differences.
An egyptian game based off of a real game table found in king tut's tomb.
A chair based off of a real chair in the tomb as well. The arms are bezier-profile prisms.
I'm really proud of this chest. The inside is a mirror. Also based off another real find in Tut's tomb.
The canopic jars that hold the mummy's organs. They're quite simple, but you'll recognize the man-jar as a miniature of the sarcophagus head.
Bezier-lather clay pot.
A really sketchy scarab beetle. These crawl randomly on the back wall of my tomb. They creep me out, which is funny since I created them.
Randomly placed gold coins!!! I also used those coins in silver in two bowls in the scene, and of course all over the floor. This random function got used so many times -- the coins, the beetles, the necklaces . . . oy.
And last but not least, my chariot wheels. they're bronze in the tomb. They're multiAdded to get that tipped effect.
THAT'S IT!!! HOOOORAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
