Cool Glasses: Environmental Eyewear + Measurements

I began rethinking my eye-wear as I didn't really feel comfortable with the strength of my concept and decided it to tie in the concept with my research on the human perception of place and environmentalism.

From that I came to the idea of representing our melting polar ice caps as glasses as ice masses that protect the planet from the suns rays using the white colour of snow and ice to reflect the suns rays much like sunglasses.

I then imported images of Antarctica and Greenland with the pictureframe command and traced them with the control point curve

traced map of Antarctica

traced map of Greenland

Here are the final outline

I then extruded the curves to be implemented into the eyewear

I then replaced the lenses of the glasses with the two ice covered land masses

I then measured the smallest and largest widths of the nose bridge of my own glasses

then implemented the measurements into the rhino sketch

I then also translated the measurements from my glasses to the rhino design

Here are the rearranged positions of the ice masses to better conform to the glasses while sacrificing identifiability for funtionality.

here i measured the arms of my glasses at 6inches

hen made the correct length arms from lofted circles and an added sphere tip as to not stab oneself while still maintaining the icicle aesthetic.

I also extruded the lenses to be a half inch on the frame and a half inch relief for the land outlines

here is the rear and front view showing the rounded end pieces to keep the icicles from being too tight on the face. a problem I had with my paper prototype.

front view highlighting the arm corner design

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