During the last week before winter break I was able to come up with a solution to my problem regarding to the orientation and bond angles of the atoms in relation to the other atoms that are bonded to each other. I was able to make a skeleton made of cylinders so I can align each of the atoms and know where to put each atom so I can create the Acetyl-CoA model as accurately as possible. With the skeletons made of each of the different bond angles I might need I should be able to finish the rest of the Acetyl-CoA atom by the end of the week when I get back to school from winter break. The only problems I am facing is how I want to present the atom because I want to 3d print the finished product. Next Weeks Goals:
-Finish the Acetyl-CoA Model
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This week I started working on the modeling the Acetyl-CoA model. There are several problems I have ran into with dealing with bond angles due to the fact of 3Ds-Max not having a way to easily snap the atoms at specific angles like 120 or 109.5, causing me to make all of the angles by eye and have been looking into possible ways to fix this problem and hopefully resolve it next week. Also tonight is this years first game night. Game night is a time where middle school and freshmen can come and play games to learn about the game design pathway and hopefully get people to join the pathway. Next Weeks Goals:
-Finish The Acetyl-CoA model -Find a way to have specific bond angles This week I started one sorting out what will be the sizes of the atoms and the bond lengths along with the angles. I started by setting up a spread sheet with all of the information that I knew I was going to have to find like radii (size), bond length, and the angles for each bond. I used periodictable.com as a reference for covenant radii due to all of the bonds in Acetyl-CoA are covalent this also allows me to calculate bond length between each of the atoms. The problems I ran into this week were having the Workeys test on Wednesday and wanting to make sure everything is a accurate as possible. I am having each of the parts I want to be looked over looked over by my AP Chemistry teacher to assure that I am being as accurate as possible and getting her help with finding parts of the atom that I have not learned about. For example covalent bonds in reality overlap instead of forming bonds like depicted in ball and stick models of atoms.
This week I have started sketching out the model that I am going to do for the molecule Acetyl Coenzyme A or also know as Acetyl-CoA. This model that I am going to be making is a scale model so the focus on this project is not to have complex new shapes and modifiers in an animation but rather pay attention to the details of the shapes and making sure they are accurate to real life, so I will have to have accurate atom sizes for each of the atoms, accurate bond angles, and bond lengths. This will take extensive research and this is why I am spending lots of time planning out how this model will look on paper so the transition from paper to 3Ds Max is seamless and easy. I am using my AP Chemistry teacher to help me make sure the drawing of Acetyl-CoA is accurate and helping me visualize how the atom looks so I can model it in 3Ds Max. The problems I faced this week was the making of the drawing of Acetyl-CoA which has a formula of C22H38N7O17P3S and not knowing about how organic compounds are written I had to learn about the locations of Carbons and Hydrogen and that how carbons in organic compounds want to make 4 bounds so you fill in Hydrogen for all carbons that don't have 4 bounds already. Next Weeks Goals:
-Finish the drawing and have it approved -Re-draw approved drawing -Model atoms with accurate atomic radii |
AuthorIm a student at Durham School of the Arts Highschool in Durham North Carolina . I love playing video games and enjoy useing digital artwork as a platform to display information more efficiently, I also enjoy industrial photography and camping. Archives
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