[Tutorial > Modeling] A PoorFlatEllipsoidIndian Bowl

Voder Vocoder

Okay, Simon, here's a poor flat ellipsoid Indian bowl for you.

(www.datafilehost.com)

(I think 30 days is plenty.)

~Voder

simon le bon

Dear Voder, please to see you again.

Surely a better way: much easy and faster, but more importantly much more flexible. Ok! not so bad topic: we learn.

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PS Sorry to be heavy, i regret that your DataFileHost don't kept the files permanently:"Your files will be kept on our servers as long as it is downloaded every 30 days."

slb

Gaieus

Hi Folks,

Interesting and useful topic.

Just an addition to Voder's bowl: you can soften the dividing lines after painting them so that the bowl looks more "roundish" but still keeps the different colours in the pattern. It is especially useful if rendering in a 3rd party software (it would show any non-softened edges really aswul).

MALAISE

Hi Simon

Really good topic, and probably not a waste of time...

MALAISE

Gaieus

Hi Simon,

It's always a pleasure to read your posts, really! Good to see you around after such a relatively long time!

simon le bon

Gaieus, Malaise, I can't wait until my next post to reply for your kindness pleased me so.
I know myself as a spare time SketchUp user. But i can bring to this fine community my small stone, my energy, my curiosity and a little bit more maybe.. simon

MikeR

great tuts.....help me a lot to understand how S works.....just one question thou....if ever i want to put a hole on the rounded edges....how do i do that?? thanks....to the mods...pls move my post if im being OT

Gaieus

T cut a hole into a curved surface (in general), you will need to build a 3D shape the cross section of which will be the shape you want the hole to be, poke it through the curved surface, select both the curved surface and the 3D shape, right click > Intersect... > Selected. This will create the edges between the surface and the shape and you can simply erase all unwanted geometry (generally the leftover of your 3D, cutting shape and the cut-away piece of your curved surface).

Better understand by having a look at this tutorial - a little bit different example (not with a bowl) but the idea is the same.

MikeR

got it!!!big help thanks!!!

simon le bon

Monday, March 2nd.
After months I come back on this thread.

First, it's because the illuminating and simple Voder Vocoder's solution isn't available anymore on DataFileHost.
So here is a permanent link for his (SU6)skp:
squat_bowl_vodervocoder.skp
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In addition i have made this screencast in order to easy show it.
[flash=545,430:21w5tec9]http://www.viddler.com/simple/50d17f9e/[/flash:21w5tec9]
http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/15/

re: Viddler videos are often hard to open. Given to the exceptional quality of it picture please don't give up: simply reload.. ;-)simon

Jean-Franco

Excellent !!!

Gaieus

Well, sometimes they DO load a bit harder (probably this depends on connection speed as well as server side bandwidth limitations) but I do like them for sure.

Maybe sometimes, when one opens the topic and many of the videos try to start streaming, it can be hard for internet connection.

simon le bon

If at the end of your KitoRaupp Pottery, you deselect ( Oups!) the spiral line you wanted (and needed) to remove, >> No Panic!!
Just take a look on this strange but very efficient new selection tool: "selected edges by defined angle", our frenchy Matt666 have developped in his last Selection Manager. It is specificaly a good tool to achieve the job ( to remove the spiral line) simon

pilou

@unknownuser said:

( to remove the spiral line)

or the cool Select lines by length by Chris Fullmer

simon le bon

(Re: I give up posting direct videos on this thread, cause they seem to load more and more harder)

PAINTING THE BOWL

Plus: here is the basic skp if you want to play with it:
PaintedBowl_c_a.skp

Tools On Surface - v1.3 Fredo6
Mirror_ v3.1 TIG
Selection manager v1.1 Matt666
:-)simonlebon

simon le bon

Is it a Pottery Challenge or What?

Here is another fantastic way i was totaly ignorant to model our Bowl. Thanks Pilou to link this to us!

Pilou's link linking to:

which linking to:
KitoRaupp Pottery Twist on Youtube
and
KitoRaupp Spirale Tutorial on Youtube
and others KitoRaupp productions

On another hand the technic used is not so easy to reproduce. So I made this small video to clarify it. (I'm the author of nothing here). Simon

CenterPoint v.1.20 by Todd Burch

Gaieus

These gif animations are very cool, Simon! Why don't you include the full size image with the [img] tags instead - after all they are not too big?

simon le bon

Hi! dear Gaieus, our cool "watching and listening man" (I guess at night you like listen the stars in the sky !!)

In facts I have made this Gif (450x337) to fit the forum. It is an experiment to deliver an animated explanation which needs just few seconds, for it is the case very often. I've first tried to display it in full format, afterwords I thought an animated thumbnail leading to the full format was better. I don't know. It depends of the case for sure

PS: i remember now why i made this way! This Gif is 732Ko . So if we put several in the same page we are surely going to difficult loading..

simon

simon le bon

Merci Jean-Franco
Gaieus, "../but I do like them for sure.
There is many advantages to use Viddler: great picture quality, easy upload, nice statistics, Flash or original downloads, video comments, good sharing options,... Nothing is perfect, the streaming is a bit erratic So I now put direct link systematically just below .

I have made a mistake at the end of my previous second video, PaintingTheBowl_B.
In order to reconstruct my Bowl, I have copied the single slice x49 (Cause my starting stripped tube was based on a 50 segments circle) (i had been surprise by the enormous time this operation had taken )
In fact i had forgotten this supposed "single slice" was already made with a couple of slices (mirrored). So, it was only necessary to copy it by 24 !!

Simon

simon le bon

%(#800000)[This thread is still intend to beginners. Regular SketchUp users might waste their time on this space (but who knows ]
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Secondly i have missed to explore a modeling way which makes school inside SU. It is certainly not the easiest way nor time saving one. But it is a fresh handmade way.

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