It is a unique pump and having never come across one before and I am compelled to find out more about this remarkable invention. This pump is presently on display at the Museum of Power, Langford, Maldon, Essex and regularly runs on air. Our group has visited the museum and have taken quite a few pictures to use as a reference while we try to model the individual parts. We have split the group into different areas of the modelling process and split the pump into four areas where each of us will tackle a section; my section will be the ‘green’ end which I presume is some sort of air cylinder compression unit. This week we did a presentation to the class trying to explain our workload and who was tackling what, we also tried to point out some of the weaknesses that will cause us a problem or two, some of the areas we identified would be animation timing where all the moving parts move as one; synchronous to each other, the detail of each moving part and its timing in relation to all the other moving parts, is going to take a lot of work. Modelling the pump shouldn’t be to difficult a task, each one of us have learned a great deal in the last year and we have gone from complete novices in 3ds max to accomplished users, we can navigate around max fairly easily while bouncing ideas and concepts off each other has become an invaluable part of our team work attitude. Print this post
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