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    SU models of George Hart's geometric sculptures

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    • G Offline
      guzman tierno
      last edited by

      @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 !!! πŸ˜„

      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.
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      • D Offline
        Durant Hapke
        last edited by

        Mad math GT,

        Rocking bring that.

        What a bunch or rock star models... Not sure that my bubble noggin can cope with such complexites at this hour...

        But, I would have to, well, I will have to get down on this a bit later.

        Time for a morning pour.

        Durant "You mean I bend this over?" Hapke

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        • pilouP Offline
          pilou
          last edited by

          @unknownuser said:

          I've been using TopMod (or trying to use it) for one hour or so

          Yes it's not intuitive like SU πŸ˜‰
          A big training is necessary before make that you want! πŸ€“

          Frenchy Pilou
          Is beautiful that please without concept!
          My Little site :)

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          • G Offline
            guzman tierno
            last edited by

            Back to the topic,

            Here's one more,
            this one it's only inspired by Hart's sculptures
            but I invented it. "Giraffe".
            whatever you want to say about or do with them is greatly appreciated.

            (I attached also a variation of "Knot Structured", I changed the colors to make it a bit more similar to the original).

            As usual: images and skp files ...


            giraffe2.jpg


            giraffe.jpg


            knot-structured2.jpg


            giraffe2.skp


            giraffe.skp


            knot structured.skp

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            • H Offline
              HFM
              last edited by

              Love your models Guzman, hope you don't mind πŸ˜„

              [attachment=0:1smwlc0g]<!-- ia0 -->001.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1smwlc0g]

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              • G Offline
                guzman tierno
                last edited by

                @hfm said:

                hope you don't mind πŸ˜„

                Really cool, I like it

                I didnt recognize it when I first saw it,
                nice work HFM.

                What did you use to render it ?

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                • H Offline
                  HFM
                  last edited by

                  Hypershot πŸ˜„

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                  • ArcA Offline
                    Arc
                    last edited by

                    Thank you Pilou and guzman.
                    I have played Topmod all day, it's very cool stuff, and I rendered in hypershot.

                    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xcjlegqdIuM/SUpGnI-cNnI/AAAAAAAAAMk/t5wuEGd0DTA/s320/untitled.84.jpg

                    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xcjlegqdIuM/SUpErrPrnKI/AAAAAAAAAMU/wGnlV_fCjlg/s320/untitled.86.jpg

                    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xcjlegqdIuM/SUpEg73tUyI/AAAAAAAAAMM/SIhrdfLycUg/s320/untitled.89.jpg

                    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xcjlegqdIuM/SUpEGgXIGCI/AAAAAAAAAL8/WdMxMNV8ZtA/s320/untitled.94.jpg

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                    • G Offline
                      guzman tierno
                      last edited by

                      Cool stuff, Arc

                      after seeing your drawings I decided I'm gonna have to give TopMod another try,
                      thanks for sharing.

                      guzman.

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                      • G Offline
                        guzman tierno
                        last edited by

                        If there is anybody interested in modelling geometric sculptures, I wrote I brief tutorial that illustrates one of the possible methods to obtain this kind of models.

                        First. Choose a somewhat symmetrical polihedron as a basis for your model.
                        For instance: Platonic, Archimedean and Catalan Solids they all work fine.
                        They're quite easy to draw but you may of course download them from the 3DWH.
                        (Interestingly engough all those solids can be modelled without ever having to type in any measures for sides or angles! Sketchup is so powerful).

                        In this brief tutorial I'm going to choose the Truncated Icosahedron, that is:
                        the soccer ball:

                        http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Trunc-icosa.jpg

                        Second. Choose two or more edges of your polyhedron. It is easier for the subsequent steps if the edges you choose are coplanar (that is, there is a plane that contains them all) but you can also choose non-coplanar edges.
                        In this example I'm going to choose the edges shown in the image:

                        Trunc-icosa.jpg

                        Three. Create something that connects the edges you've choosen.
                        If you want a nice result, it is better to draw something symmetrical. In this example, we have to connect three edges, so I've drawn a component with three-fold simmetry.

                        Trunc-icosa2.jpg

                        Four. Copy the component that connects the edges in all possible positions,
                        until you've covered every edge of the polyhedron.
                        You may now want to modify the connecting component to avoid collisions.
                        Then erase the polyhedron and just keep the connecting components (skp file attached):

                        cagework_2.jpg


                        cagework_2.skp

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                        • B Offline
                          bubbalove
                          last edited by

                          I took a shot at rendering the pencils in Kerky... I think it turned out ok.


                          pencil render.jpg

                          "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Churchill

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                          • G Offline
                            guzman tierno
                            last edited by

                            Awesome, that's great, I love it

                            When I first saw it, I thought it was the image in Hart's site,
                            your rendering is really really similar to the original image,
                            Really nice work. The colors in particular are just perfect.

                            the only thing that may be improved is the model of the pencils I made
                            (the edges are too sharp).

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                              guzman tierno
                              last edited by

                              How to draw an icosahedron without ever typing in any measures.

                              http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Icosahedron.svg/385px-Icosahedron.svg.png

                              I know only a few people may be interested in this issue, but I think it's fun when you try.
                              It is actually way easier than it might look.
                              So here's a brief tutorial.

                              1 - Draw a "golden ratio" rectangle, SU will show a tooltip when the rectangle you're are drawing is a golden-ratio rectangle. (I will not discuss here the definition of golden-ratio rectangles and why they are so important, just use them).
                              Select the whole rectangle and make it a group.

                              Image2.jpg

                              2 - Select the group and make a rotated copy of it by rotating it around its center by 90Β°:

                              Image4.jpg

                              3 - Select the second rectangle and make a rotated copy of it by rotating it around the line shown in the image by 90Β°:

                              Image6.jpg

                              4 - Select again the second rectangle and rotate it (no copy) around the line shown in the image by 90Β°:

                              Image8.jpg

                              You should end up with three equal rectangles orthogonal to each other.

                              5 - You're done. Just connect the vertices of the rectangles to form triangles:

                              Image10.jpg

                              (you may also wanto to erase the rectangles and other internal faces)

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                              • GaieusG Offline
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by

                                Taff Goch has plenty of extremely cool tutorials about such shapes. πŸ‘

                                Gai...

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                                • G Offline
                                  guzman tierno
                                  last edited by

                                  You're right Gaieus,
                                  I know TaffGoch tutorials, they're actually a must.

                                  I thought however that a step-by-step description could be useful in this thread concerning geometric constructions and sculptures.

                                  (But you're right, they're problably off topic in the gallery, I wont post any more)

                                  thanks.

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                                    guzman tierno
                                    last edited by

                                    Here's the last one I made (so far):

                                    mill3.jpg

                                    It is inspired (in the sense that is has the same structure, rhombic triacontahedron) to:
                                    George Hart's 12-Part Puzzle

                                    .


                                    mill 3.skp

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                                    • GaieusG Offline
                                      Gaieus
                                      last edited by

                                      I didn't mean you shouldn't post whatever you like in connection with this thread (although admittedly such a tut would be nice in the respective department as well πŸ˜‰ )

                                      And of course I only mentioned Taff here because - well, true, his works are a must πŸ‘

                                      Gai...

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                                        guzman tierno
                                        last edited by

                                        TaffGoch also has many cool models related to George Hart's sculptures like this one:

                                        http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/download?mid=21e7435470757928c72bf3eb4f056c1c&rtyp=lt&ctyp=other&ts=1229368575000

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                                        • G Offline
                                          guzman tierno
                                          last edited by

                                          An idea for the holidays.

                                          Cut 30 pieces like this:
                                          image016.jpg

                                          Then have fun sliding them toghether to obtain this:

                                          http://www.georgehart.com/athens/Greece10.JPG

                                          Precise instructions and ready-to-print templates: here and here

                                          Of course, you can also obtain similar results using sketchup

                                          triacontahedron.jpg

                                          I also built one with colored thick paper and it is actually fun.


                                          triacontaedro2.skp

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                                          • GaieusG Offline
                                            Gaieus
                                            last edited by

                                            Ehm... By sliding them together do I obtain that beautiful lady as well? 😳

                                            Gai...

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