Altared Images

Paul Russam · 17 Feb 2012, 00:28

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Thought that might get your attention

Hello All,
It’s been a while since I posted here, I had to check myself, it was May 2010!!! Damn….

For the newer folk here, I’ve been working on a church here in Northern Ireland since 2004; for a long time it was a back burner project, working on it whenever I/We had gaps between other projects. Finally in 2009/10 the project was given the go ahead and recently, I’m pleased to say its finally finished.

I've done some posts about the church before mostly on this thread so instead of making a bunch of comments about individual images/photos I’ll leave it to you to ask any questions you might have.

Here are a bunch of links to some Picasa albums containing a range of photos/image of the Sketchup model and the real church.

Picassa album of photos taken prior to construction beginning

Picassa album of the Sketchup model being built and various design options such as stairs, altar etc. being developed.

Picasa Album of photos taken during construction.

Picasa album of photos of the finished church

Picasa album of images from the finished Sketchup model

As I own Twilight Render I thought I should use it!

Picasa album of images from the model rendered in Twilight.
I’ve done no post processing in Photoshop/other .
I’m rendering an image each night and a panorama each weekend so this album will be updated daily.

I’m rendering the panoramas at 4000x2000 and the images at 3000x2250.
I’ve found an app for the iPad called Pixeet 360 that not only enables you to view the panoramas but using the gyro in the iPad you can move the iPad around to look at the building, up, down and all around, it brings a smile to the face of anybody who ‘plays’ with it.
They can be hosted by Pixeet and (with luck) linked below:
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/JN5U5J3E
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/X9F1YP14
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/GXJG8W47
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/KLW4Z21F
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/P9GCDWK1
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/M2OUOM8R
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/V28VLQBI
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/J2P984RS

tadema · 17 Feb 2012, 00:55

Hello Paul, I vividly remember you posting those earlier images and often wondered what became of your project. Being a great fan of encaustic floor tiles it's brilliant to see those amazing floors preserved!
John

hellnbak · 17 Feb 2012, 04:32

The link to the Picasa Album of Images From the Finished Sketchup Model doesn't seem to be working

Paul Russam · 17 Feb 2012, 08:45

Last nights render.....

Its in this Picasa Album along with the other renders

@hellnbak
Try it now, all the Picasa links were https, I've changed them to http. I cant test it as it takes 'me' to 'my' album

Mike Amos · 17 Feb 2012, 09:01

Wow, just wow.

hellnbak · 17 Feb 2012, 09:13

@paul russam said:

@hellnbak
Try it now, all the Picasa links were https, I've changed them to http. I cant test it as it takes 'me' to 'my' album

Still not working. Goes to Picasa, but says "Sorry, that page not found". All the others work.

Pixero · 17 Feb 2012, 09:29

Very nice.
Just a question, how do you get the SketchUp style images to a equirectangular panorama?
Do you use cubic pano script and then transform it to equirectangular in some 3d party application?

hellnbak · 17 Feb 2012, 10:02

@paul russam said:

@hellenbak
Try it now, it should be this album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/100514400832478538257/1287StPetersSUFinished?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Sorry to be such a pain, but still getting "sorry, that page was not found"

Paul Russam · 17 Feb 2012, 10:23

@hellenbak
Your right, I used a different browser without me being logged in to my Google account and I got the same message, weird.
I've deleted the album and I'm uploading the images again.
Give it 15 mins to upload and for me to edit the first post for the new album and post another link here.

Paul Russam · 17 Feb 2012, 10:39

@hellenbak
Try it now, it should be this album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/100514400832478538257/1287StPetersSUFinals?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Edit - Fixed the link to the album, it appears it was corrupt.
@Pixero
A photographer friend has Pano2VR http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2vr.php and he converted the 6 images from the CubicPanoOut script to an equirectangular image for me. I did the 6 images at 2000x2000 and he converted them to a 4000x2000 this way the edge/profile lines came out a bit thinner than they would have had I done the 6 images at 1000x1000

Here's a link to a very rough YouTube vid showing the Pixeet app on my iPad:
[flash=420,315:2kn1f5v3]http://youtube.com/v/JhNleq30kLE[/flash:2kn1f5v3]

Paul Russam · 17 Feb 2012, 10:42

OK,
I've deleted the old Picasa album and reuploaded the 52 images into a new one:
http://picasaweb.google.com/100514400832478538257/1287StPetersSUFinals?authuser=0&feat=directlink
I tested it and it looks OK, I've edited the 1st post with the correct link.

Mike Lucey · 17 Feb 2012, 12:48

Great stuff Paul. I have earmarked this topic and will view over the weekend. Its great to see 'real world' projects

boofredlay · 17 Feb 2012, 14:24

Glad to see more of your work again Paul. Great stuff indeed.

Paul Russam · 17 Feb 2012, 14:38

It may seem like I've only ever worked on this project bit its not true, ITS NOT TRUE I TELL YOU!!!

They've either been for too boring or in the case of the prison far to sensitive to show.
This is a little something I'm having fun with for my own self gratification, can you guess what it is?

hellnbak · 17 Feb 2012, 14:42

It's a paperweight (for very large papers)

Paul Russam · 17 Feb 2012, 14:44

Close, its definitely for holding something down

dale · 17 Feb 2012, 14:52

Paul
So glad to see you back. The Church imagery is beyond stunning.
As for your personal project, it looks to me like it is a mounting platform for The Antikythera mechanism, or a really large septic field "D" box.
Welcome back.

Roger · 17 Feb 2012, 15:58

@paul russam said:

It may seem like I've only ever worked on this project bit its not true, ITS NOT TRUE I TELL YOU!!!

They've either been for too boring or in the case of the prison far to sensitive to show.
This is a little something I'm having fun with for my own self gratification, can you guess what it is?

You said it yourself. It is a self-gratification machine.

hellnbak · 17 Feb 2012, 16:10

@roger said:

You said it yourself. It is a self-gratification machine.

Paul Russam · 17 Feb 2012, 16:24

I've just kicked off this weekends panorama, I've set Twilight to save it every 10mins to my dropbox folder.
Here's a link to it:

4000x2000 jpeg panorama

Twilight tends to create big jpegs (opening and resaving them usually halves their size) so be warned if you chose to view it. It could be 10Mb or more hence why I've done a URL link and not an IMG link here.

As I said it'll be updated every 10mins so it'll get more refined as time goes on.