Week of April 14-18

This week I am continuing to work on my bakery 3D project. I am learning a ton by working on a project this big with so many tiny details to work on. I have learned more about beveling by making the fridge, more about loop cuts and insetting faces from the lemon, simple deforms for the whipped cream, and lots about makeiing materials in blender from all of them! his week I was able to make a couple types of cupcakes. I had a difficult time trying to figure out how to make the orange swirls and the strawberry, but I was able to make the material for the cupcake papers on my own! In still working on the strawberry placement so its not there for now

Math: Algebra and Functions (Coding)-

As I worked on materials for things like the cupcake paper, I adjusted Blender's material settings using sliders for transmission, roughness, and color. These sliders all use values between 0 and 1, and I had to experiment with combinations to get the look I wanted. I learned that changing one number—like increasing transmission to make something more see-through—can completely change the way an object looks. This helped me understand how math controls materials behind the scenes, almost like adjusting variables in a formula.

Math: Geometry (3D Geometrical Relationships)-

This week, I focused on modeling a strawberry for my 3D bakery project. To shape it, I used loop cuts to add more geometry so I could control the roundness and form of the strawberry. Then, I used the extrude tool to pull out small faces for the seeds and create the leafy top. These tools helped me break down a complex organic shape into manageable steps, and gave me more control over how the surface curved and connected. It taught me how 3D shapes are built from smaller pieces and how changing their geometry affects the overall look.