SU models of George Hart's geometric sculptures

[guzman tierno]

@rustyshack said:

Cagework, rendered in Artlantis, which is not really meant for this kind of thing

Thanks, nice work,
btw what is Artlantis meant for ?

ehaflett, thanks, it's fun to share ...

[cosycat]

Hypershot makes a nice job of rendering these.
This is just a preview - so a few artifacts

[guzman tierno]

@cosycat said:

This is just a preview - so a few artifacts

wow cosycat
that's so awesome !!

[guzman tierno]

Here goes another one ...

This one is inspired by "Knot Structured"

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knot structured glass.skp

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[solo]

seems to be cropped to 500 pixels?

[guzman tierno]

@solo said:

seems to be cropped to 500 pixels?

This is getting really exciting and fun,
really nice Solo !!

I really like the light, seems the one in some of the renderings of your villages

did you improve my pencils ? they look much nicer than the ones I drew

yes, it's cropped, but in these cases I use "view image" from firefox menu
to see the whole image, so no big problem

[solo]

thanks, I used Vue and just changed the textures and softened the edges.

[guzman tierno]

you mean "soften/smooth edges" or some ruby ?

[guzman tierno]

So far ...
(click to enlarge images)

Solo - Bathysphere
RustyShack - Cagework 1
Cosycat - Cagework 1
Solo - Pencils

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[guzman tierno]

Here's another one
"Anorexic Cube"

and a variation of the bathysphere, with holes,

Ideas, renderings, modification are alwawys wellcome ...

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anorexic cube.skp

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bathysphere-with-holes.skp

[tim]

You might enjoy making models of some of Bathsheba's work too -http://www.bathsheba.com.

[honoluludesktop]

Renders not as slick as others by with spirit!

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[guzman tierno]

@tim said:

You might enjoy making models of some of Bathsheba's work too -http://www.bathsheba.com.

Thanks,

that's actually interesting,

(some of the sculptures are pretty similar,
for instance: [url=http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/mermaids-delight.html:3a22axhl]Hart[/url:3a22axhl], [url=http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/quintrino/:3a22axhl]Bathsheba[/url:3a22axhl])

[guzman tierno]

@honoluludesktop said:

Renders not as slick as others by with spirit!

Nice !!

spirit is important,
thank you,

[Ross Macintosh]

Very cool models & renders!

I had fun playing with the 'anorexic cube' one. Attached is a Podium render postprocessed by adding noise, texture & sharpening. In the model itself I had beveled all the edges of the shapes but I doubt that shows up in this render.

Regards, Ross

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[guzman tierno]

@ross macintosh said:

I had fun playing with the 'anorexic cube' one. Attached is a Podium render postprocessed by adding noise, texture & sharpening.

That's really cool Ross !

@ross macintosh said:

In the model itself I had beveled all the edges of the shapes but I doubt that shows up in this render.

It does, it shows up in the render,
I should have smoothened the edges, thanks,

I really like also the holes in the components, it becomes more dynamic,

nice work,

regards, guzman.

[guzman tierno]

@unknownuser said:

Seems curious that you don't know TopMod

I actually didnt know it. Thank you.

@unknownuser said:

It's the crazzy must prog that I have never seen!

It actually looks really impressive, I'm downloading it and I'll be soon
experimenting.

I have to say however that I enjoy drawing structures in SU, I think its fun and it gives you the possibility to understand what you do. I'll be back on this after using TopMod.

Thanks for the interesting links,
guzman

[pilou]

Seems curious that you don't know TopMod
Maybe this can help you
See the gallery for intricated form
This one for example
It's the crazzy must prog that I have never seen!
Just export in OBJ then OBJ to a format that be used by SU (3ds...)(Anim8or for example)
Of course you can use it for any deviant Art or architectures!

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[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

I have to say however that I enjoy drawing structures in SU, I think its fun and it gives you the possibility to understand what you do.

Both are crazy and very well complementary!
TopMod permit to create topologic surfaces that will be very difficult to make with another progs!
A little training is also necessary
Use it only for modeling not for rendering or texturing! (here imported in Zbrush)
Have fun with it! (you can click for zoom)

[guzman tierno]

@unknownuser said:

TopMod permit to create topologic surfaces that will be very difficult to make with another progs!

Topological surfaces was actually my field of interest ...
So

merci beacoup Pilou !!!

Edit:
I've been using TopMod (or trying to use it) for one hour or so. My impressions:

• Too buggy, crashes really too much
• Difficult to use (It took me a lot of time to understand the user interface and how the commands work)
• Too difficult to obtain what you want (you end up making what the program wants, that's how I felt)
• I dont understand how they choose the commands, they seem to me too random
  It has of course some new ideas, but needs to be improved a lot imo.