This week I am reminded of how little control I have over digital mediums like Maya. Oh boy.
I have worked for a landscape architecture firm for three years and over that time have become very familiar with a wide variety of plant life. It struck me last class that modeling plants would be a great way to practice the extrude, cut faces and smooth commands. So I did my best to model something like a Baptisia flower and then duplicate it many times, tweaking the rotation and scale to compose an interesting field. I was disappointed when my computer did not seem to have the juice to render the whole field, but here's a screen shot of the field and an occlusion rendering of a close-up on the flower...
