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    An exercise: DRAWING A PARISIAN FENCE

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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 πŸ˜‰ :

        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... πŸ˜†

          Facetted_3.jpg
          -Taff

          "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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          • D Offline
            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 πŸ‘

            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 πŸ‘

              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' πŸ˜†

                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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                    • D Offline
                      d12dozr
                      last edited by

                      Thank you Taff.

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

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                        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

                        β€œAn 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 Β» 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

                          β€œAn 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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                          • pilouP Offline
                            pilou
                            last edited by

                            Very similar to this one by Viralata πŸ˜„
                            (a specialist Blender / Architecture)

                            http://www.viralata.fr/wp-content/gallery/displacement/2rondscouleur.jpg

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

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                            • gillesG Offline
                              gilles
                              last edited by

                              Pour revenir au sujet:
                              Coming back to the first post:

                              " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                              • daleD Offline
                                dale
                                last edited by

                                Simon...... are you still out there?

                                Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                                • TaffGochT Offline
                                  TaffGoch
                                  last edited by

                                  %(#BF0000)[
                                  @gilles said:

                                  Pour revenir au sujet:
                                  Coming back to the first post....
                                  ]
                                  Thanks for posting! Great video, which I would never have otherwise seen.

                                  Fencing continues to be assembled by hand, using jigs.

                                  Hmmm, I built my SketchUp model by hand, using "jigs" (of a sort.)

                                  -Taff

                                  "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                                  • gillesG Offline
                                    gilles
                                    last edited by

                                    @taffgoch said:

                                    %(#BF0000)[
                                    @gilles said:

                                    Pour revenir au sujet:
                                    Coming back to the first post....
                                    ]
                                    Thanks for posting! Great video, which I would never have otherwise seen.

                                    Fencing continues to be assembled by hand, using jigs.

                                    Hmmm, I built my SketchUp model by hand, using "jigs" (of a sort.)

                                    -Taff

                                    Glad to see your always in the woods, much appreciate your works but you don't post enough.

                                    " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                      jeff hammond
                                      last edited by

                                      @gilles said:

                                      Pour revenir au sujet:
                                      Coming back to the first post:

                                      good find πŸ‘

                                      i would have guessed the assembly is more automated than this.

                                      dotdotdot

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