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Box modeling is a simple strategy I use to help students get started when making 3D objects

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Starting with a box (hence the name of the method) you can select polygons and choose to duplicate, extrude, scale, or transform them.

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These objects are simple and thus robust enough to 3D print. This is a LOM print, a delicate but detailed form of 3D printing.

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This student started with a line drawing of a wolf and she split it up and used box modeling to create this standing form.

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This student chose to make a modular design like a puzzle, inspired by furniture and architecture.

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One student wrote code within a 3D modeling software to make randomized skyscraper like structures.

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These are 3D prints of those 3D structures.

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A different design from another student who experimented with repetition and the introduction of new shapes

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This student was working with dolls that reflected her culture based on her own drawings. The modular based figurine had a variety of heads.

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Another figure by the same student

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We experimented with printing the inverse of an object in the shape of a mold for metal casting. This was a piece made from Britannia metal.

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As students become more comfortable with the methods of modeling their only restriction is their imagination.

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This is an organic model, a toadstool. It is difficult to find methods of modeling that work for creating organic structures.

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Organic modeling - heart

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