In an effort to better understand how to use more of the tools in FormZ and to further develop my luminaire, I experimented with the loft, sweep, and nurbz tools. Shown here are a few of the wire frame and the RenderZone images that resulted. To use these three tools, I drew two lines in different planes (XY, XZ, and YZ), then I selected one of the three tools, and a smooth, continuous plane was created between the selected lines.
The first two images are large scale views of a nurbz creation. I'm not quite sure how to "control" the nurbz tool. How the program determines the configuration of the continuous plane is a mystery to me. With the loft and sweep tool, i felt that I had some control in terms of guiding the form that I wanted to create. However, with the nurbz tool, interesting forms can be created, but what that form will look like was always a surprise to me.
I found that it was very important to label each object as it is created, in order to keep track of all the duplicate images that are created with each operation. It can get very confusing and hard to keep track of original images, copied images, ghosted images, and the like. In order to create to create the double plane with the S-curve face, I had to create the first plane with the S-curve, then ghost that plane, reactivate the S-curve to create the second plane, then unghost the first plane. Yes, it is unnecessarily complicated and confusing.
The first two images are large scale views of a nurbz creation. I'm not quite sure how to "control" the nurbz tool. How the program determines the configuration of the continuous plane is a mystery to me. With the loft and sweep tool, i felt that I had some control in terms of guiding the form that I wanted to create. However, with the nurbz tool, interesting forms can be created, but what that form will look like was always a surprise to me.
I found that it was very important to label each object as it is created, in order to keep track of all the duplicate images that are created with each operation. It can get very confusing and hard to keep track of original images, copied images, ghosted images, and the like. In order to create to create the double plane with the S-curve face, I had to create the first plane with the S-curve, then ghost that plane, reactivate the S-curve to create the second plane, then unghost the first plane. Yes, it is unnecessarily complicated and confusing.
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