Bottle Process

1. revolve bottle form            2. create cylinder

 3.move cylinder onto bottle   4. create profile for base

5.revolve base

As we played with the forms in FormZ we found it easier to fake the beer bottle with a cylinder instead of placing our funnel onto a full bottle.  This gives the look of a funnel and base placed onto a bottle.

Bottle Project Update 1

     Concept 1                                                       Concept 2                                   

Motive:We want to stray from the norm of re-inventing the bottle, and instead invent something that works with the bottle. We are thinking some sort of cover that slips over an existing bottle, stores pills, and can be used as a funnel to refill the bottle throughout the day. As a fun twist we are going to create a version specifically designed to target hangovers. Picture this... you wake up after a long night of helping Brad "research." You have a killer headache and you know water is the only thing that will do the trick. You look around and see nothing but a sea of empty beer bottles... and you have class in 10 minutes. With our invention you simply grab an empty, rinse and fill it, slip it into the pill sleeve along with some advil/tylenol, and away you go. Even if hangovers aren't your thin

g, you can be the only one in your class carrying around a beer bottle displaying your favorite brand. Nalgene, eat your heart out! Oh yeah.. and for this project we want to learn Form Z and use its tools to best render our contraption.

Method:
After playing around with Form Z we think it would be best to use a simple revolve to create a generic bottle to display our contraption. Then, create the 3 distinct portions (see sketch) of the thing separately, and put them together. We will probably use a revolve for the "funnel," a sweep along a path for the "tines," and either a revolve, extrusion, or boolean... or a combo of all to create the base/pill box (this will be the most challenging component).
Timeline:
I have broken down the project into distinct stages. Stage 1 is research and development, and has already been completed. Stage 2 is Design and Implementation and has been started, and will be completed by Wednesday the 25th. Stage 3 will be Marketing and Presentation and will begin on Wednesday the 25th and be completed by the morning of Friday the 27th.

Expected Outcome:
We expect to come out of this project with a good understanding of basic Form Z processes involving sweeps, revolves, and extrusions. We hope to have images of our 3 components separate, together, and in use (i.e. attached to a bottle).

The History of Adobe Photoshop

One could argue that the ideas for Photoshop were first born in a darkroom, where photographers have been using layers of negatives, and subtle changes in light to enhance and manipulate images since the first days of film photography. However, the computer program, Adobe Photoshop, began in 1987 with Thomas Knoll’s idea of being able to use a monochrome monitor to display grayscale images. Later, becoming a full scale image editing software, it was called ImagePro. Later renamed Photoshop, Adobe purchased the rights to the program and released it for Macintosh in 1990. In 1992 it was released for the Microsoft Windows platform. It wasn’t until 1994 that Adobe released a version of Photoshop with the ability to use Layers, a function that has made Photoshop the definitive software for image enhancement and manipulation.

Photoshop has continually developed, adding plug-ins, filters, and advanced image editing techniques. Recently, a budget priced, dumbed down version of Photoshop entitled Photoshop Elements was released in response to many other companies releasing low priced image editing software that promises to compete with many of the simpler functions that Photoshop performs. However, there is no current program that can compete with Photoshop’s ability to perform complex image editing, enhancement, and manipulation.

Today, Photoshop is still used by professional photographers. However, its reach has continually grown into other fields. Many novices use Photoshop for pleasure. Also, it is a popular software for graphic designers, architects, and film makers among others. As Photoshop continues to grow, image editors everywhere will be waiting to see what the folks at Adobe can come up with next.

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