Mushroom Castle for the CAD Class Assignment

 
This week's assignment is to make a castle with Rhino.

I decided to create a game about one button mushrooms searching for colours. This castle can fit in as part of the scene.

The story of the game is very simple. One little button mushroom starts her journey to search for her colourful companions.

I did some research about mushrooms, and I especially like the golden jungle mushrooms. They are groups of little mushrooms growing on the tree buck.

 





So I want to design the castle arrangement like the mushroom community. The buildings are similar to the mushroom shape but in a more straight and tidy fashion. The tiny thin stem-like towers work as the stairs to climb up to the caps. The caps have several windows on them to indicate the little mushrooms living inside.  Buildings are placed randomly but close together.

Here is my original design concept drawing. 

 


 

These are images of my 3D design from different angles. 




 I haven't figured out how to create windows on a sphere surface, so the windows will come next week. :P


Some Rhino operations I learned on YouTube:

Sphere: Type in "Sphere" and create a ball

Surface: Create a surface from 3 to 4 points. (When creating a surface around a sphere in top view, the surface will lay in the centre of the sphere [from perspective view])

Split: Type in "Split", and click on the object to split. Then click on the object to cut the previous object. Then enter. The second object(e.g. a surface) will cut the 1st object into 2



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