Ive done a bit of raster to vector conversion, and generally the results arent very acceptable, and that was with black and white images, i cant imagine how bad theyd be with colour maps! On the other hand, i ahve imported a pic of a map in to SU before and traced over the contour lines. That worked pretty well, and if youve got a good pic you can drape it over the mesh very easily. If you had some known distances, i supose you could also do it to scale as well. or maybe just use GE

Thanks for your CC Daniel.

Hey Guys! Thanks for all the great comments! Yeah, I really need to get this thing in gear. Heh. No pun intended. Jason! Those Australian rigs were one of the inspirations for this truck. In fact my sister lives in Australia and I remember seeing lots of cool stuff when I visited Ularu.

updating this with another finished painting before. i treated the surface with mixed media paste to create texture before painting it. [image: motherandchildpy6.jpg]

no problem...what dimensions will be?....and what's your mail? pd: tell me what do you think of this picture in a big size, maybe if it's large it doesn't look good or look too granulated

In the second column of screens the bottom two monitors have a deformed casing. The shadows on the back wall seem strange. I don't like the marble tops of the cabinets on both sides of the room. The computer chairs are pushed aside, when surely they'd have been lined up in front of the keyboards? The left computer chair is hidden behind the table chairs. I'm not too sure what the 4 boxes are at the end of the long table (speakers?).

model looks great.. the only thing that distracts is the tiling grass- it looks like carpet. I learned a neat grass trick from this model here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d218e86bdbc5ab2b972ec726e7a08cca&prevstart=0 its a fast move that makes a ton of difference

Fred, You have quite a lot of patience and a wonderful imagination. Keep them coming. I sit here and smile. Thanks, Allen

wow! they look very realistic! which kind of glass did you use?

yeah yeah yeah....leave me alone..haha thanks.

This is a table that im doing a quick product study of at college. Im pretty pleased with it, altohugh i tihnk the table top texture needs a bit of work. [image: 2460726301_76ab41089b_o.png]

Thanks folks! Here is another that I don't like as much... I figured I would post anyways! [image: chromearcbottomsmallerly0.th.jpg]

Tad too 'doffy'. Still working on the model. [image: doftest2pa3.th.jpg] Rethinking what I want to do with stuff like this. Drawing's great, but I've printed a couple of renders (not this one) on photo paper - and the result's brilliant. They look just like crisp b & w photo's of 'physical' models.

okey dokey, shall we say noon on monday? WIP's throughout, as much detail as possible and at least two renders. sound fair? think anyone else is interested? lol pav

There are some free models of statues on the net. Someone in 3D Warehouse transformed to skp this free model: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=14e3023f03787b204a736b2733b8d89e&prevstart=132 [image: download?mid=14e3023f03787b204a736b2733b8d89e&rtyp=lt&ctyp=other]

Looks just like the ship that abducted me last year.

Watkins, I was actually thinking of going the other direction with similar materials. I was thinking of a thin plywood core with medium density foam blocks glued to it. In the art project, this might be suspended in an arched tower above pedestrians. Of course, a City engineer will be involved in safety issues, but the safest thing would be something that would not kill and be less likely to injure in a worst case situation. I even considered aerogel until I found out it is the most expensive building material possible. I would like to produce a miniature in brass for my desktop. Carbon fiber would be interesting but again expensive. A ferrous metal core and super magnets embedded in the end blocks would be fun a long as you did not get your fingers caught between modules. A lot of possibilities.

All my comments are going to be negative. Sorry. I hate cutout people. I don't like the fact that there's a combination of cutout people, 2d graphic, realistic trees and then the rendered building in the background. I don't think there's near enough emphasis on the appearance of the building, which is what the image is supposed to be all about.

the model is awesome! and as pichuneke said, you should definitely try Kerkythea, it's free and quite easy. i'm sure you would learn very fast.

i like the model and a better render would be great!