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I keep thinking about the bases as stop signs which (if you must know) are 30″ wide.
Also, someone didn’t know about the Daleks from the BBC Dr. Who TV series, but see above. 

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for the full scale prototype we are going to go with one of the forms that rob devised from expressions (images attached) following the octagon (circle) base to square top concept. we’ve decided that the type of model and it’s dimensions will control the podium height. for instance a site model has a […]

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So here’s a basic Podium I drew with some simple parameters. The top curve controls most of it. Its height from the ground determines the subdivisions in the loft surface so as to normalize somewhat the triangle size. It can be rotated relative to the base which gives it a bit of […]

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Here is a manipulation of the previous basic configuration. A rectangle top condition determines the length of the octagon edge (a potential rule). The aligned edges of the rectangle and octagon could imply an orientation or directionality in the podium. Contours can then be scaled to a profile on the opposite edges.
What […]

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In thinking about going beyond the Maya process of lofted surface > polygon > triangulate (first two images in the first row) we can achieve a variety of general triangle tesselation patterns which may be more interesting. To achieve the more truss-like configuration (third image, first row) that was shown in the Geometry 3D […]

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Some 3D examples of geometry to define form and tesselation (Yes, it looks like building, deal with it). This example podium (see the first row of images) is three feet high with horizontal contours every six inches. The contours can be oriented to fit a particular profile or acted on by scripting. […]

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In thinking about the tesselation of a podium form, I’d like to have more control over the generation of its triangular faces. Triangulating a surface that has been lofted does not always result in a tesselation pattern that is optimal for cutting/assembling. Depending on other parameters of the podium (like twisting) the distortion […]

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Click the link to download the site model:
Site Model

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Here is a podium idea that I came up with Tuesday night. In light of Wednesday’s conversations, I decided not to talk about it. Essentially, the podium was generated as a means to display different scale models. I assumed with this that viewing angles for the models themselves are inherently different. A […]

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