We plan to add some LED lights inside the eyeball this week and finish up all the work.
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- connect small flowers
- make extra vines and bugs
- dye plant material + mushroom stems brown
- dye butterfly and dinosaur purple
- attach all pieces together
Last week: completed dyeing and patterning, cut most nylon pieces
This week: completed sewing of the cloud sans buttons (we will decide post test inflation where they will be located as baffles) and attached air inlet though we have made the air inlet that will attach to it. We will add the hole retroactively. Sewed all but the pupil onto the eyeball, which we will also add the air inlet later.
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Over the weekend, we finished cutting off our pattern for the leaves and assembling them. We also dyed two inner wall leaves with green and pink gradient. Our next step is to dye the outer layers green, make the teeth and the stems and assemble everything together.
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We made several smaller mockups of the Venus flytrap head. We came up with a pattern with baffling that we are satisfied with, and we plan to scale up the mock-up into our final size. We plan to dye the fabric after we cut out the patterns and before assembling, and by next Monday we plan to finish the head of the flytrap.
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We started planning out the space and scrapped the cage idea.
We started to put together what our elements look like and split up some of the work. We talked about what we wanted some of the elements to look like (more 2d or 3d appearances). We also figured out dimensions for some of the individual objects. Currently, some of the patterns for the dinosaur, butterfly, and mushroom have been cut out.
Additionally, we started deciding some of the colors that we are going to dye the individual elements.
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After getting some help over the weekend from Sean, we have finished our rhino file for our ribcage design.
Over the course of the next few days we will start cutting and sewing the design – we are hoping to have at least one arch of the ribs done by Wednesday.
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We also finished the timeline and major/minor goals outline for our project, as included below:
In class Monday, we decided that we will try acid dye for the iris of our eye, since we were really taken with the patterns we could create by gathering/scrunching the fabric.
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We have figured out the sizes that we want the inflatable to be, including the sizing and space between the ribs. We have also decided to use all white rib stock because we want to see the effect of color from the inside will travel through the white pieces and give a dream-like look both inside and out.
