Honeycomb lamp

Rich O Brien

Thomthom's HeightMap to Mesh plugin on a 64px x 64px .bmp

Tried a 208px x 208px first but it buckled SU.

olishea

Oh yeah, great little plugin. Isn't there a plugin/algorithm to subdivide a face into these shapes? I'll look into some other techniques to achieve this. Imagine a Voronoi TOS

Rich O Brien

TIG's elegantly named Quadrilatelizer (which has a scrabble score of 968 with three triple word bonuses and bonus for all letters used) can generate a funky yet consistent results.

olishea

Thought so! Gonna give it a whirl now.

There seems to be a grasshopper workflow I may look into as well.

Rich O Brien

You need the patient of a saint to wait while SU crunches numbers....not worth the effort though....

Rich O Brien

@unknownuser said:

So what is your secret ?

Mystérieux

massimo

Here's my go. Much better than Rich's

pilou

@unknownuser said:

TIG's elegantly named Quadrilatelizer (which has a scrabble score of 968 with three triple word bonuses and bonus for all letters used) can generate a funky yet consistent results.

Yes but that is only quads!
Seems you have not only quads!

So what is your secret ?

Rich O Brien

That's plagiarism

pilou

The Voro method by Mattc is fine but you must click twice the same number of faces!

massimo

Yours is a lot better...and great render.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

you must click twice the same number of faces

One for draw a point, one for apply the plug on each points!
Of course I can use the Manifold Lab of Wings 3D but that is cheating!

massimo

Looking great Oli.

olishea

Tell me how!!! Cryptic! I can do this in Wings but I don't want to. You see from the video just how easy a subdivision in Wings can be!! The only problem is how many iterations before it will import into SU!

This is what I was doing last night. Anyone remember Podium 1.7?