322 EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy
figure 8
- Changing the context
After testing the system under new conditions, students started experimenting with
different contexts. Becca’s object of investigation was a thickened surface that got
affected by multiple pressure points.
Students felt that they needed to have more control over the location of the
effect. The function of soft selection proved to be very essential because it allowed
the students not only to control the intensity of the effect but also the placement of
it. Soft selection is a built-in function in 3D Studio Max that allows users to localize
effects.
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- Building new seeds
Students were asked to disregard the old seeds that they used in the previous mor-
phing process and construct new ones. The new seeds were supposed to be more
general and deal with issues with which the students wanted to engage in the final