Clayton's Pirate's Glass Arghhhhhh
Problem: Design a Glass for a pirate with a hook!!!
Description of design drivers / goals
Wave height/Roughness of seas: DRIVING PARAMETERS Rougher seas require more overhang to keep from spilling. (1=smooth, 10=double overhead)
Mutiny Potential/Crew Unrest: The more unhappy your crew is, the more likely you are to defend yourself with your beverage glass; requiring thicker glass and a bigger bottom.(1=BFF, 10=ready to snap)
Location: The type of drink and type of glass used is going to vary greatly from daiquiris in the tropics to vodka shots in the Baltic. (1=tropical, 10=deadliest catch)
Logic diagram
CAD models
Parametric variations: Images
Lessons learned
*DON’T MESS WITH PIRATES
*Constraining Curves is much harder than expected; I was prone to over constraining them *Constraining each line as its constructed makes it much easier to fully constrain the whole model without over constraining it *Curves do interesting thing when pushed to constraint limits
Discussion
I think your idea is so creative and I like your diagram for your goal. Your parameters, roughness, mutiny, location, have a good relationship between each other.
Wow the bottom of the last design ( I think it's one of your surprise result ones if I remember correctly from your presentation) is outrageous. The bottom is so round, it's amazing the the bottom curviture could be pushed that far considering it came from the same basic design as the other containers.
I am really impressed at how well you incorporated creativity into such an effective parametric model. Your equations and relationships were well thought out and it's cool that your model produces many interesting designs.
I think those hard-to-constrain and slightly unpredictable aspects of your geometry actually worked to your advantage and generated a more interesting design. The driving parametrization is great & allows you to explore a large amount of variants withing the deign-space.
Now all you have to do is dig up some pirates to test your design…