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    An exercise: DRAWING A PARISIAN FENCE

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    • TaffGochT Offline
      TaffGoch
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      Simon & Elisei,

      I tried using Camstudio, initially, but the results were poor. Camstudio is easy, but doesn't always provide quality results. It's great, for what it is intended, but there is a better option for a "looped" animation of limited frames -- GIF animation software. (This animation is composed of only 15 frames.)

      I created the frames from SketchUp 2D exports, rotating the torus 2° each interval, producing 30° total rotation. (This matches the model component rotation of one spiral "tube" to the next.)

      I kept the SketchUp viewpoint constant, and rotated the torus, to avoid any camera positioning problems. I could have established 15 camera locations, to produce 15 scenes, but the way I did it was quicker. (Creating 15 camera/scene postions, however, does have the advantage that they can be saved in the model file, for subsequent use.)

      I assembled the 15 frames into a GIF animation, using JASC "Animation Shop," which I bought (cheap) over ten years ago. It's my understanding that COREL bought-out JASC. The older "Animation Shop" (vs 3) can be downloaded from several online sites, or you can use one of the MANY other freeware GIF animators, available online.

      [NOTE: I used the same technique to create my avatar.]

      -Taff

      "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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      • S Offline
        Simon B
        last edited by

        Well, it works for me.

        More inspiration here

        😉

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        • ArcA Offline
          Arc
          last edited by

          Play with tours and component stringer.
          tours11.jpg
          tours12.jpg

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          • simon le bonS Offline
            simon le bon
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            Can I believe it !!! another Simon B!? 😎 + 😎 = 😆

            Hi Arc ( you have found the link of "your" animated picture in this thread I guess 😉 ) You like to play with Component Stringer; me too. 👍 nice result.

            I have made my own try with animation on this spiral cone . Dear Taff I don't know why I don't reach the smoothness of yours ~~

            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/generalPicts/SC04_cropped.gif

            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/generalPicts/SC04_cropped.gif

            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/generalPicts/SC04_cropped.gif

            *simon

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            • TaffGochT Offline
              TaffGoch
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              @simon le bon said:

              "...Taff I don't know why I don't reach the smoothness of yours..."

              Simon,

              The first and last frame appear to be the same, which looks like a pause, or stutter, in the animation. I deleted the last frame, and it's somewhat better:

              Edited
              However, now there's a slight "jump" in the animation. 😕 I can only guess that there must have been a variation in the degree-of-rotation for one of the frames.

              -Taff

              "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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              • simon le bonS Offline
                simon le bon
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                Hi Taff,
                Thank you to watch and dissect 😉

                I thought the problem was coming from a visual bip due to the duplication of the loop..
                In fact I had made mistakes. It is very difficult for me to maintain 15 times the same process. My mind goes away;.

                To make it easy and unmistaken, this time, I had rotated copied the SpiralCone 2°x14 (the 15th is the same than the first)
                and had placed each copy in its own layer ( 01;02;etc..) and had make them visible one by one.

                http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/generalPicts/SpiralCone5.gif

                This time it seems working good 😮

                ++simon

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                • BoxB Offline
                  Box
                  last edited by

                  Just to help possibly simplify the animations for you.
                  Use scenes, create one scene at front one scene at back( or side to side, whichever works best for you) and export the animation as JPGs.
                  You can specify how many Frames per second in the export and resolution then combine in the gif program of your choice.

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                  • simon le bonS Offline
                    simon le bon
                    last edited by

                    very easy indeed dear Box

                    Here is my "BoxCube" 😉 made in a minute with 41 pics 320X240 = 283 Ko

                    http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/generalPicts/BoxCube.gif

                    ++simon

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                    • BoxB Offline
                      Box
                      last edited by

                      Happy to help.
                      You can use this method for any number of scenes, so the cube can roll over or zoom in and out or even fly off the screen.
                      And reducing the number of colours in the gif will bring the file size down, I make a lot of animated avatars for people on another site and the file limit there 19.5 kb, so you learn to get everything out of each pixel.

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                      • TaffGochT Offline
                        TaffGoch
                        last edited by

                        I found, online, this drawing from an old book...

                        3knot.png
                        ...and wanted to produce the center "coil" in SketchUp. After trial-and-error with the torus "grid" spacing, I finally was able to model (and render) this:

                        Torus3.jpg
                        -Taff


                        Model available in the Google 3D Warehouse:
                        http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c7113517b4de5d982137e32e8ebf2b1

                        http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/download?mid=c7113517b4de5d982137e32e8ebf2b1&rtyp=lt&ctyp=other&ts=1281117295000

                        "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                        • simon le bonS Offline
                          simon le bon
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                          Dear Taff,

                          Seems to be an interesting variation of our exercise.
                          I'm actually a bit too much out of the game to participate actively. You know, holidays, taking some rest, and big business with my garden etc..

                          first dissection 😉 :

                          http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/ParisianFence032_th.jpg


                          http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/ParisianFence033_th.jpg

                          friendly, simon

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                          • TaffGochT Offline
                            TaffGoch
                            last edited by

                            I didn't think there were enough colors & shadow details in the first render... 😆

                            Facetted_3.jpg
                            -Taff

                            "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                              d12dozr
                              last edited by

                              😲 TaffGoch,

                              that's psychedelic! Can you pleasetell how you made the color gradients? ...is that done in Kerkythea? The coloring especially is super neat 👍

                              3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                              http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                              • TaffGochT Offline
                                TaffGoch
                                last edited by

                                @d12dozr said:

                                ...Can you pleasetell how you made the color gradients? ...is that done in Kerkythea? The coloring especially is super neat 👍

                                Marcus,

                                I created, in Photoshop, three radial gradients...
                                SketchUp_materials(textures).png
                                ...for use as projected textures in SketchUp. I scaled and positioned the projected textures, while in SketchUp...

                                ...and, when exported to Kerkythea, the materials are retained as "Diffuse" reflectance bitmaps (with their proper rotated/projected positions):

                                Kerky_screengrab.jpg
                                In the "Material Editor", I added "Specular" and "Fresnel-ramp"(procedural) settings, to give the surfaces a mild metallic appearance.

                                -Taff

                                "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                                  d12dozr
                                  last edited by

                                  TaffGoch,

                                  Thank you for the explanation, you're like a magician with Sketchup, except that you will share your 'tricks' 😆

                                  3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                                  http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                                  • TaffGochT Offline
                                    TaffGoch
                                    last edited by

                                    Marcus (and any other interested parties,)

                                    I've attached the Kerkythea "scene" file, so you can examine the material settings for the metallized colors.

                                    I "jazzed" the color/specular settings a bit more:

                                    Metallized colors
                                    I used MLT, and let the render run overnight (about 350 passes.) The above is a 50% scaled jpeg. The original is 1100x1100 pixels.

                                    -Taff


                                    Kerkythea "scene" file

                                    "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                                    • TaffGochT Offline
                                      TaffGoch
                                      last edited by

                                      Before "metallizing;" rendered, straight from SketchUp (no material editing in KT):

                                      ![Before "metallizing"](/uploads/imported_attachments/QWjy_Color3.jpg "Before "metallizing"")
                                      -Taff

                                      "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                                        d12dozr
                                        last edited by

                                        Thank you Taff.

                                        3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                                        http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                                        • A Offline
                                          August
                                          last edited by

                                          Please forgive me reviving an old thread but this entire thread is definitely one of my all time SketchUcation favorites. The depth of tutorial information in this thread is just awesome.

                                          AND, there is new and hopefully relevant information to add. The GIF that by Cosycat that was posted by simon le bon on Sun Jul 25, 2010 has now officially gone viral.

                                          I have seen it as the Profile image on Facebook by someone who had never heard of SketchUp. It is also regularly used by "vsauce" as a background in many of his videos, as seen here starting at 0:25.

                                          Just FYI.

                                          August

                                          “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
                                          [floatr:v1mcbde2]-- Charles Dickens[/floatr:v1mcbde2]

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                                          • A Offline
                                            August
                                            last edited by

                                            Page 3 of this thread, near the bottom, has a post
                                            by simon le bon » Sun Jul 25, 2010,
                                            with an image that seems to be making its way into the pop culture.

                                            Today Lady Gaga's Facebook page featured this image:
                                            https://littlemonsters.com/post/52d986cec214e4e4488b4c27

                                            https://d2g892zuoe3k49.cloudfront.net/4fc06d51c64dfcba5500b268/584976895_700.jpg

                                            “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
                                            [floatr:v1mcbde2]-- Charles Dickens[/floatr:v1mcbde2]

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