Very cool.

Hello Lucius, Great model with lots of detail! May I ask where you got the measurements of the aqueduct from? I have to make a 3D model of the pont du gard for a school project and while I can find some measurements online (like the height of the different tiers) I can't find all of them (like the height of the arch itself, or the position of the middle tier on the bottom tier). Also, the information I found is often inaccurate. It would be really helpful if you could tell me where you got the measurements from. Thank you in advance!

Your background image is being used incorrectly. You can see the distortion.

@loco said: What renderer did you use? Mental Ray

In some years, we will use a 4 components 3D printer (wood, rings, bulb, cables) to create things like this in one go

@ermin0s said: Are all the edges of that nexdome the same length? i want to build this in real, but then with those long toothpicks for meat. All the "copper" springs are the same, and all the "silver" ones are the same. Note, however, that the 3-way "splits" are NOT equal.  Since this is based on a 5-frequency geodesic tessellation of an icosahedron *(frequency 5v{1,4} to be specific,) * the three straight sections of the copper springs are different lengths.  The straight sections of the silver springs are of two lengths -- one in the center, with the two ends being the same. **CORRECTION:  ** I forgot that my last refinement (the most problematic, time-consuming exercise)  was to make the three-angle subdivision for each spring EQUAL.  Therefore, the three lengths (chords)  between geodesic nodes, for each spring, are identical.  Note, however, that the two springs don't share the same chord lengths.  The silver chords are 0.2834, and the copper chords are 0.2523, when the radius of the sphere *(to the nodes) * is 1.0000. [image: Rotegrity_Springs.gif] The CENTER of each coil corresponds with a "node" of the geodesic tessellation. -Taff

There is no post pro at all. In fact I thought maybe this is a creative look to render presets! anybody here is interested in such look?

Beautiful! Well done! The undercarriage detail is incredible.

I'd give my left arm, half a balogna sandwich and my mint Famous Monsters of Filmland collection to be able to do stuff like that. Just incredible! Any chance of seeing some of them as SU models, before the rendering and post-processing?

These are great, excellent!

Joyeux Noël!

Here is Honda's version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1za77Rva0

It's really refreshing to see someone willing to forgo rendering when presenting his model. Doesn't happen enough here.

Very nice work!!

After several years recently visited Yazd , a 4 hours trip from Isfahan to Yazd , and take photo from real location, obviously there are differences between my render and the reality. In fact I prepared this render to mention the "bump map" used in my e-book that is about V-Ray for sketchup and is now available on the shop here: http://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/1285-v-ray-for-sketchup I hope this would be a great product for hose who are new to V-Ray and are interested in learning V-Ray with no time wasting. [image: SofI_yazd-real-location.jpg]

@daniel said: Looking great, Hector. (and still working on your project) Daniel, you're alive!!!...thank you, it was surprisingly difficult to do a compact plan but I used the disciplines I have learned from you.

@marked001 said: very nice. i'm slacking on my holiday card this year since I decided to email instead of snail mail them.. need to knock it out this weekend. Thank you! I used MailChimp to send out my Christmas card to all of my clients. Worked a treat

Indeed some extremely cool ideas here

Beautiful render! Have a great week, _KN

here's a new video of that project: http://youtu.be/lMFaTBQ4ZRE http://youtu.be/lMFaTBQ4ZRE