Week 2

This week we began brainstorming ideas on how to begin our design of the artificial ear. We were originally going to create the ear design using Creo Parametric software; however, after researching other software options, we decided to use Maya software instead. Based on the time we are given to actually create the ear, Maya seemed like the wiser decision because it is more time efficient than Creo. If we used Creo, we would have to draw out the design and use various tools in the software to create the design; whereas, if we used Maya, we would be able to create the general shape of the design using an actual picture of a real human ear. This way our artificial design would be a more accurate representation of what a real human ear looks like.

After we decided to switch to Maya, we began thinking of how to actually start the design and what exactly we want our ear design to look like. We looked up pictures online of various human ears to decide how we wanted to model our artificial ear. We also looked up pictures of other artificial ears to get an idea of what ours will hopefully look like at the completion of this project. Since we have never used Maya before, we looked up tutorials on how the software works and how we can use it to create our artificial ear design.