An Accidental Abstract

plot-paris · 17 Jun 2008, 08:25

wow, that looks marvellous, Fred!

and this is solely a SketchUp generated image? (looks like you spent 10 hours of rendering on that )

fbartels · 17 Jun 2008, 11:16

Thanks for the feedback guys. Always appreciated. Just SketchUp (and FFD) acting a little screwy.

If anyone is interested, hi-res versions of the images are available at the following urls:

http://dws.editme.com/files/MayJune2008/forest%20of%20lines%202%20big.jpg

http://dws.editme.com/files/MayJune2008/forest%20of%20lines%202%20v2%20big.jpg

utiler · 17 Jun 2008, 11:30

Fred, you're crazy, cobber.

I Always view your threads with much vigour...

Neat.

Archi Rag · 17 Jun 2008, 11:46

Those are great!! are they straight from SU or do u do anything with them in photoshop?

rsw · 17 Jun 2008, 12:37

Really interesting stuff! excellent!

To me it looks like it could be some crazy hair / a wig of some sort...

fbartels · 17 Jun 2008, 12:49

Thanks guys. You are making my day, which is cool because we had a t-storm last night which screwed up the electricity at the school where I'm the I.T. guy. I used to like thunderstorms.

Again, straight SketchUp/FFD. No photoshop.

rsw, I'm with you re the crazy hair look. I think they would make great toupées for some Japanese anime character. Goku's wacky brother perhaps.

Fred

fbartels · 17 Jun 2008, 13:38

One last image before settling down to some real work. I was using the Option/Orbit trick (Ctrl-Orbit on Windows) to get some different views of the model. This view seemed to have a little more balance than the others.

It has some nice color details at high resolution, so I put the hi-res version here:

http://dws.editme.com/files/MayJune2008/accidental%20abstract%20v6.jpg

HFM · 17 Jun 2008, 23:25

Nice effect Fred!

An other cool thing to do with your image is to use the 'normal pushpull' option that comes with joint push pull on your model, it does this to a sphere:

Imagine...

fbartels · 18 Jun 2008, 00:26

HFM,

Cool idea regarding joint push pull. I took one of the elements that comprise the starting geometry for the images above and tried your idea on it. Lots of potential here I think.

Fred

boofredlay · 18 Jun 2008, 00:47

I like that one. The second image down is now on my desktop at work.

jcaintn · 18 Jun 2008, 02:00

Absolutely stunning images.

Well Done!

Jorgensen · 18 Jun 2008, 06:59

Fred - those are some crazy nice illustrations, and very Not SU looking

Like the first one very much, and it is now on my desktop-background.

Keep them comming.

pilou · 18 Jun 2008, 10:52

Your last seems like a Duchamp research
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