March 20 LAB:Intro to Sketchup. 3D Prototyping with Sketchup.
We will play with “Objects” from Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15396/pg15396.txt
*note, read this section in Tender Buttons. If you are not familiar with Gertrude Stein A) you are in for a treat B) don’t be put off by the playful non-mimetic effects C) think about how modeling could to help make the meaning more clear or reveal meaning that was previously obscured.
“Prototyping Mina Loy’s Alphabet” in Feminist Modernist Studies Margaret Konkol (OCLC # 927694612 and ISSN 2469-2921. August 2018) Please request through Interlibrary Loan at https://www.odu.edu/library
“Dialogic Objects in the Age of 3-D Printing: The Case of the Lincoln Life Mask” Susan Garfinkel (206-218) in Making Things
After you’ve submitted Project #2, turn your attention to sketchup and download the software here: https://www.sketchup.com/try-sketchup *If you currently teach in any capacity, apply for the higher ed account, as you’ll receive a free year’s worth of access to the modeling software. In advance of class, I’d like you to play with the software and see if you can figure out how to make a cube/rectangle. Even if you don’t currently teach, you can still get a free 30 day trial. < 3 sketchup.
Next, explore Thingiverse as this is a place where people share their physically-possible models. Conceivably, you can download, slice, and print em. Your goal is to think about the assignment and what piece of literature you believe you can analyze better by employing modeling as a form of analysis (modeling is not proof of concept or a rando curio–it is a 3D modeled and printed object that helps in your own critical analysis of said piece of literature): https://www.thingiverse.com/explore/newest/3d-printing to see what sorts of forms people have made already.
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