Refining our AR/VR Tinkercad Designs

 

Yesterday we started experimenting with our iPads and the #Tinkercad App putting together a raft of original designs and then combing it with the #piccollage 

Yesterdays emphasis was on explaining the process and giving the students a short space of time to complete a design and then project it, and cross app it.   

Today the emphasis was on thinking about locations where the object looks like it might fit - and students had the experience from yesterday.   An early example as shown left was the orange, the student from the day before had noted that there was a kitchen play area set up in a junior classroom.   The student felt that if they created food then they would be able to place it in the location and it would fit in well with what was intended.   

The last step was to take the design and turn it into something of an art project - in this example the free (limited to three per day with the standard app) was applied via Pic Collage in this case a 'Japanese Cherry Blossom' filter.   In this instance the students were able to compare the original photograph with its altered AR/VR variation.   The process took about thirty to forty seconds to complete.

The student was then able to look at the design and think about how they might adapt it, how they might stage it and how different that it could look.

One of the tasks that we have completed in the past has been summarised via a series of posts in October in 2025.    We choose s series of objects to hide in a stage setting or creation.

In this example shown left the student used the 'donut creation' from earlier in our class   The student had been familiar with this print and decided to include it in a staging by putting it into a lunchbox situation.

This task was created at speed - the student in theory could spend additional time refining her design and considering the 'decorations' and making it look more real (and for instance could have altered the picture to reduce the glare, if for instance it was in black and white spotting it would be challenging) however the student was extremely pleased with the result.

We have a large numbers of photographs in this series of prints - which have been posted in more detail on our 3DPrintSchoolNZ Facebook pagae.