Team+Snowman+Journal+NO.1

Team Snowman Group Members: Louis Reed-Wood, Ian Chen, Hersh Shukla

Project Concept After brainstorming several ideas, we decided our favourite was to do a snowman. This symbolizes winter and the holidays very effectively. We will attempt to make our snowman in the traditional size of three different sized balls, the top one being the head. We will colour the bottom two. There will also be a nose, arms, eyes, and a hat.

Project Description: Snowman Our snowman will have the following elements included: one large base ball, one medium middle ball, one small head ball, a nose, a hat, and eyes. The large ball and medium ball will be coloured green and blue, respectively. The nose will be red or orange, and the hat will be darkened but not necessarily black. The eyes will be blue. For colouring, we will use food dye and, if available, a green floodlight as a background light. Materials required for this include 3 different sized bowls (to make semi-circles), a different bowl (preferably more cylindrical) for the hat, various colours of food dye, a chisel, a flood light, and icicles for the nose and arms. Here are the dimensions (measurements approximate): note: nose and arm size are varied based on size of icicles found
 * largest ball of ice: 16 cm high, diameter of 24 cm
 * medium ball of ice: 14 cm high, diameter of 20 cm
 * small ball of ice: 12 cm high, diameter of 16 cm
 * hat: 6 cm high
 * nose: 20 cm
 * arms: 10 cm

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Team Snowman Journal NO.1 Added to wiki on Dec.-13-10 For our ice sculpture project, we decide to make a snowman. We have had 3 choices: Christmas tree, Santa Claus and snowman. Since the first two will be too complicated in shape and carving, especially the face of the Santa and the problem of the force loaded about the Christmas tree trunk, we decide to make a snowman. Snowman symbolizes the Christmas and winter holiday. So it meets the theme of the project. Also, we will use polychromatic light or dyes, which are linked with the physics we have learnt, to decorate. We are planning to make 3 balls of different sizes by freezing water in different containers. Although we don’t have the container with a perfect spherical shape, filling in the gap between two semi-spherical parts by snow may help. Besides 3 ice balls, we probably will use things like branches and carrot as arms and nose. As for colouring, we decide to use dyes. The main body doesn’t require colouring, but the LEDs inside the body are optional. Activities planned to be done tomorrow: 1. The production of semi-spherical ice bricks required for the body. 2. The fabrication of the main body constructed by 3 ice balls.

Team Snowman Journal #2 Added to wiki onDecember 14, 2010 Between today and yesterday, all the ice sculpture’s main ice pieces have been frozen. At this point, our main goals will be to attach and colour each part of the sculpture. We realized that we cannot use sticks and carrots (as the requirements only allow ice), so these will be made using carefully-shaped ice. We are going to test out using a type of paint for our dye; if this proves unsuccessful, we will use a more liquid dye that can be frozen on to our sculpture. Tomorrow, our group intends to do the following: 1. Complete the sticking together of each major section of the body. 2. Make the smaller parts of the body. 3. Work on colouring (complete as much as possible).

Team Snowman Journal #3 Added to wiki on December 16, 2010 Today, we came to school early to finish our ice sculpture up. The body is all assembled. The long red nose makes the snowman's face kind of scary. If you look at the whole thing, it's pretty art-like, since it's covered with different colours. i guess you guys haven't seen a colourful snowman before, haha. There are still some details we need to fix such as the arms and the carving of the hat that makes it fit the head. I believe we can solve those very quickly, and then we are done ! ! !

Final Labelled Image

Pictures of Final Project!