My family as vases

alexschreyer

I wanted to create an unusual family portrait. This one was made using SketchUp (with the Follow-Me tool and was ultimately printed on my new MakerBot. See if you can make out the faces...

The tutorial is posted here:

http://sketchupfordesign.com/tutorials/turn-yourself-into-a-vase-with-sketchup-making-rotational-portrait-sculptures-from-silhouettes-for-3d-printing/

Makes for a great personal holiday present...

Cheers,
Alex

boofredlay

Very cool.

Bryan K

Took me a second.

Very cool indeed.

cotty

@bryan k said:

Took me a second.

Very cool indeed.

+1

TIG

Very clever idea

The Queen and Prince Philip had a not dissimilar combo vase made showing both of them - not readily possible with SUp's FollowMe, unless you make two halves and merge their meshes around a half-circle path [CurviLoft, EEby???, Artisan ?] and then merges two mirrored parts... It ends up looking wonky and poorly made until your brain clicks into 'negative mode'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_vase

Vicspa

Very nice, thanks for the tut

dale

The only example of when being negative is quite positive.

Bob James

Very clever I must admit that I needed the hint about thinking negatively before I saw the profiles.

alexschreyer

@tig said:

The Queen and Prince Philip had a not dissimilar combo vase made showing both of them - not readily possible with SUp's FollowMe, unless you make two halves and merge their meshes around a half-circle path [CurviLoft, EEby???, Artisan ?] and then merges two mirrored parts... It ends up looking wonky and poorly made until your brain clicks into 'negative mode'...

Wow, great idea! Now if I can get four faces on the four "sides"... Come to think of it: I might try this with a cube.

@dale said:

The only example of when being negative is quite positive.

Haha...

Cheers,
Alex

alexschreyer

First attempt of a combined vase with Curviloft. Not bad, I just have to tweak alignment...

TIG

alexschreyer

Okay, it's in the MakerBot now. Here's a better version. Still not perfect but quite okay.

combined 2.jpg

You can also look at the 3D model on Sketchfab: http://skfb.ly/l4hf1c0ba

Cheers,
Alex

nicoag

sympa ;o)

TIG

I really like the way you can get 'a couple' commemorated like this in one thing... and they are looking at each other too !
It looks like a very poorly formed thing, until you know the secret of how to look at it and then it's wonderful

Dave R

Very cool idea Alex. I like the individual vases best.