Forum: 3D Modeling

Subject: Robot Hand

twillis opened this issue on Oct 07, 2001 · 8 posts

twillis posted Sun, 07 October 2001 at 7:48 PM

OK, here's my idea for the robot hand. It has three arc-shaped fingers that retract/extend into/from the main hand, which is shaped like a bowl. I'm going to add something, maybe like an iris opening, so the robot can drop things into the bowl of its hand and then carry them.

The 4th Party posted Mon, 08 October 2001 at 11:54 PM

looks like your off to a great start :)

comastalker posted Wed, 10 October 2001 at 5:49 AM

your ideas are great...

twillis posted Wed, 10 October 2001 at 3:50 PM

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. OK, here's a bit of how-to, regarding the fingers. This will probably be too basic for most of you guys, but I'm hoping to encourage some of my fellow beginners to give this project a shot. I made my fingers using the vertex modeler (yes, instead of the spline modeler, like a normal person would do; I like working with polygons). I wanted to make sure that they would follow the contour of the bowl-shaped hand, so this is how I went about it:

twillis posted Wed, 10 October 2001 at 3:52 PM

Step 1

twillis posted Wed, 10 October 2001 at 3:53 PM

Step 2

twillis posted Wed, 10 October 2001 at 3:54 PM

Step 3

TRAVISB posted Thu, 11 October 2001 at 4:31 PM

very cool !