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 The printing process went well for most parts. The curves that we were worried about didn't disappoint us. The only thing is that I still don't understand is why one half of the object went WAY better than the other half. Other than that, it was truly an amazing experience. 

 So Korey and I combined our designs and ended up with this: Personally I really like it! We had to make the whole thing taller so the curves (the tail of the fish and the part that goes around the whole thing) wouldn't be too risky to print. I hope everything goes well. I really learned a lot from Korey (both regarding Rhino and creatively) and the whole process was fun.  Can't wait to see our fish vessel getting printed!

 Last session, when we were showing our models to our partners, Korey had a design that looked like a fish. and since it was really cool, we decided to base our Hybrid object on the fish.  Both Korey and I liked my 5th design the most, but after talking about what we had in mind we agreed to do Korey's No. 8 sketch but add some sort of seaweed shape (like my 4th sketch) to it.  And as most of my designs didn't have a top (I wanted the object to be functional. Either as a vase or a pen holder) we also decided on a functional object.  I think for the next step, Korey and I will probably exchange files to work on the 3D model and see where that takes us. 

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 I went to Laser Cut on Thursday, October 23rd. I chose blue Acrylic as my material. The coaster is 8x8 cm. -The file I sent for laser cut- -It was kinda exciting to watch!- On the weekend, I bought beads and paint to finish the coaster. The aim was to make it resemble water and rocks. The whole goal of such coaster was to make it some sort of game. A game where you have to put the beads together in a way that would (sort of) balance your mug/cup. As it can be seen, the beads are in different sizes and are supposed to resemble rocks/pebbles.  It looks unbalanced, but it's holding up :) that's the whole point! Is my drink sitting nicely or should I be worried it's going to spill all over my table?

 So I decided to work on idea no. 10, The Bumpy Coaster.  The Bumpy Coaster has removable pieces that look like pebbles and the surface of the coaster should look like a river/water.  I couldn't fine any texture in Rhino that resembled water, so I just went with a simple blue. I will probably use "blue Acrylic" and paint waves on it myself. I was also thinking about using "Wood" painting the pebbles to give them an earthy look.  The removable pieces are supposed to be some sort of game. The owner has to arrange the pebbles in such way that the mug/glass can balance on top. Each piece is at a different hight.  The coaster is 8x8 cm and 1mm thick. The pebbles are spheres with the radius of 1.5 mm.