Week 02. Computer Aided Design

The second week of Fab Academy! I did a sketch of my project and added it to the Final Project page.

Assignments for this week

  • model a possible final project
  • compress my images and videos
  • post a description with your design files on my class pages

What I've done this week

  1. Draw a 2D model of the silhouettes
    • generator an image of a bird with AI
    • make a silhouette of a bird
  2. Model a structure to express the glowing and flickering of candles
  3. Model structrures that make silhouettes of birds flapping their wings

1. Draw a 2D model of the silhouettes

The first thing I did this week is to Draw the 2D model for silhouettes on my lamp

generator an image of a bird with AI

First, I used some AI art genorators to make some references of flying birds.

wonder

First, I used the same iPhone app as last week, wonder, to generate images of birds.

This time I didn't select any style.

Set the aspect ratio to 3:2.

Set the keyword as "bird flying"

This is what I got:

img from wonder 1

img from wonder 2

Stable Diffusion

The next AI art generator I tried was Stable Diffusion I entered each options as followed:

option value
prompt bird flying
negative_prompt -
width 768
height 512
num_outputs 4

The outputs were PNG files. I converted the images to JPG file.

I made a bash file to convert every PNG file in a designated directory to JPG.

png2jpg.sh
for f in $1/*.png; do
    g=$(basename ${f%.*})
    if [ ! -e $g.jpg ]; then
        convert $f $g.jpg
    fi
done

To use this bash file, run the following command in cammoand line.

bash png2jpg.sh pngs(directory with PNG files)

png2jpg

This is what I got:

img from sd0

img from sd1

img from sd2

img from sd3

make a silhouette of a bird

I chose this picture as an example.

img from wonder 2

I imported the picture into Affinity Designer

Then I traced the outline of the bird.

silhouette_trace1

Filled the line with black.

silhouette_trace2

silhouette_trace3

Edited the silhouetted to change the angle of the bird.

silhouette_trace4

silhouette_trace5