One excellent portfolio.

Great to see that you are defending the design and have given so much thought to our comments. Here is a picture of someone who also had a great idea and through the process of (RE) design ended up changing the world. As the saying goes... "IF at first you don't succeed TRY TRY again".... Build a full size prototype sit in it. Have a well built fellow "AKA someone like me with a beer gut" push on the side of the end rib at top curve with the intent of pushing over the rib...and then you can decide was the structural analysis software correct or not. [image: 1UiI_Wilbur-Wright-on-Flying-Machine.jpg]

Thanks Rich. If things go pear shape I can think of no better place to look for help. If things go t*ts up you can all laugh! John

Remember "The multiplication of the arcs " by Yves Tanguy 1954! [image: multiplicationofthearcs.jpg]

By the way, the above image is composed of 4 or 5 vertical images composited with Microsoft Image Composite Editor.

As I started with 3D on a computer with 1MB RAM I'm still counting polys, always trying to make as few as possible The number of polys you use depends on how many details you want, and how many pixels you have available. For a 500k model I guess I would have had to shoot some closeups too. Or just PhotoScan the main shapes and use other tools for details. It is perfectly possible to make a detailed model in PhotoScan without using the Surface/Image matching tools. There are very powerful upsample/downsample tools, as well as smooth and redistribute functions. Vertex locking and fixing are extremely useful for many tasks other than modeling from photos. One of the great things with PhotoScan vs ImageModeler and Photomodeler is that you can use all the powerful tools and plugins in SU. The sides were here made with TIGs ExtrudeEdgesAlongVector.

@unknownuser said: These images can't be created in SU with just project an image an some internal hemispheres then flat them? i did not really get what you mean pilou..

Tadema,an acquaintance of mine passed along an idea to me last week. Have you ever thought about 2nd Life? (google it) It's an on-line 3D world. Many people actually make and sell things within that world. You may actually be able to rent them out! One again, awesome as always!

You got it perfect John Yep, been a Corrie fan for a loooooong time

these are truly awesome. Really, this blows me away - I particlarly like the night one - so much depth. The other externals could do with a bit of wake but that is just because everything else looks pretty much perfect so it stands out a bit.

I know what you mean... BTW this version of FFD is a tad bit better IMO http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=25801

@gaieus said: Well, the walls that we dig up are quite deep in the ground so I can more or less take photos from above standing there. However nothing is excluded - a year or two ago, a firetruck came and lifted the archaeologist up in the air to take aerials! Well. next time you volunteer to arrange the aerials session, and then you buy a pole and use the rest of the money for a PhotoScan license Seriously, I had an aerial photo job a while ago (the poles were far too short for an entire mall), and it turned out that it was cheaper to rent a helicopter for 20 min (it was very close to the airport) than to rent a lift/platform for a day (minimum). 40 min chopper flight == 1 PhotoScan license. @unknownuser said: But enough of the Off-topic buildings - this is not about them but your model. Actually it is about using and having fun with PhotoScan, but I found no other suitable category than WIP

Hi Kilgo, Although I made it for an arch, this tutorial may be of some help for you: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34072 It would even be easier now with Tgi3D SU Amorph (it has a free "training version" with poly count limitation only but your model does not look extremely complex). Watch this video about its texturing tools: http://www.tgi3d.com/index.php?Page=Amorph&VideoID=17983944&field=content10

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Wow, one of my old favourite comedy shows. You've done it great justice, superb work as usual John!

If you had not pointed it out, I would have thought they were photos.

Awesome! Figurine renders?!

many thank's to all who like my work... my blog - http://zdesignporfolio.blogspot.com/

Cool. It is great when you have time to do stuff just for its own sake. This image looks awesome.

@orgelf La sculpture 3D est beaucoup plus intéressant et plus difficile, IMO, qu'essayer de faire revivre une scène réelle dans une salle d'art.