Here is my finished prototype:
Making my first prototype was a big learning experience. When I was putting the panels of my vase together I thought that starting by attaching them in sets of two and then end with four panels and six panels together for the final attachment would work best but this was not the case. Trying to smooth the tabs down against the adjacent panel of side four and side six was tedious and difficult so now I know for next time I'm better off gluing together a six side panel, a three side panel, and leave the final one out to be attached last.
I did like how round the vase was at this stage and then later when I was reworking the lip of the vase in rhino I figured out why it elongated.
The outer right panel is the original sizing panel for my vase. I forgot that I had elongated the panel to fit the page before I had printed out my prototypes last weekend. I think it still works, especially because in ceramics warping can happen at any stage of the process, even in the glaze firing.
Below is how I worked out the templates for the lip of the vase. I put more than necessary on the page as a safety net if any xacto accidents happen.
After this I took Bryan's advice and brought some leaf silhouettes into rhino and traced them. I chose leaves from plants that I have in my house. There's a calathea ornata leaf on the top left, under that is a peperomia hope leaf, then a monstera leaf on the farthest right, and finally beside that is a pothos leaf.
The veins on the leaf outlines are dotted so they won't be visible when I glue the secondary veins to the leaves. I'm going to use six different colors of cardstock with page two and seven printed on the same dark green color.
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