Bring your student ID and, if you have them, bring along the CD-ROM from your textbook and headphones.
Follow the directions on the CD-ROM for the three Sculpture (Carving, Modeling, Casting) video demonstrations and self-tests.
Before leaving the computer, make sure to see the instructor to record your self-test results.
Class activities
Present the two images you brought from home.
Based on the two views you are showing, describe your understanding of the actual three-dimensional object.
What additional images/information would you need to fully understand what the object is like? (size, weight, surrounding environment, range of motion of any parts that can be repositioned, etc.)
If you saw this item firsthand, what else did you learn about it?
Describe what you know (or infer) to be the process used in the making of the piece shown.
Home activities
Stroll around the FC campus, and find an example each of the following basic structures. Be prepared to guide the class on a tour of your discoveries.
Post-and-beam.
Arch.
Vault.
Dome.
In the textbook, read about the making of our environment, real (Ch. 14 Architecture), virtual (Ch. 10 pp. 177-182 Digital), and narrative (Ch. 10 pp. 165-177 Film-Video, Ch. 11 pp. 190-192 Illustration).
