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    Metal Fabric - just an exercise

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    • HornOxxH Offline
      HornOxx
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      ... Hi All, IΒ΄m just playing around with only 2 components, trying to imitate a metal fabric πŸ˜„
      This little exercise is native SkUp modeled. Beside Follow Me, just copying and rearranging, mirror, rotate and move. [SkUp 2017 Make, Enscape 2.6.1]


      Gewebe 1 1600.jpg


      screenshot Kopie.jpg

      never trust a skinny cook

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      • L Offline
        L i am
        last edited by

        Really interesting work HorNox πŸ‘ Did you come up with the weave?

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        • HornOxxH Offline
          HornOxx
          last edited by

          many thanks Liam - yes and no πŸ˜‰
          something "horseshoe"-shaped like this I had seen before. The wavy wires were an attempt to connect these rows then.

          never trust a skinny cook

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          • L Offline
            L i am
            last edited by

            Ingenious mate πŸ‘

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            • HornOxxH Offline
              HornOxx
              last edited by

              ... thanks again - to be honest, I have no idea if something like this would be possible in real life. Playing with weavings(?) is interesting however and fun πŸ˜„

              never trust a skinny cook

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              • Mike AmosM Offline
                Mike Amos
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                I agree with L i am, blindin' skill.

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                • HornOxxH Offline
                  HornOxx
                  last edited by

                  thanks Mike πŸ˜„

                  never trust a skinny cook

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                  • BoxB Offline
                    Box
                    last edited by

                    Very nice.

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                    • Bryan KB Offline
                      Bryan K
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                      Excellent modeling, but man, it must make for a large file size?

                      See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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                      • HornOxxH Offline
                        HornOxx
                        last edited by

                        Thanks Box and Bryan β˜€

                        @bryan k said:

                        ...it must make for a large file size?
                        wich would be true 🀒 especially since I have modelled these small tubes dilettantishly bad and way to big. But since I made a proxy from only one fabric part, for the final rendering model I just added these light proxies.
                        (The SkUp screenshot above I made just to show the simple weave principle)

                        never trust a skinny cook

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                        • Bryan KB Offline
                          Bryan K
                          last edited by

                          Cool. That makes sense.

                          See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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                          • hellnbakH Offline
                            hellnbak
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                            Very impressive work! Obviously took a lot of thought and planning.
                            I remember congratulating myself when I made this, but your work makes mine seem like basket weaving πŸ˜† .
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                            "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                            • HornOxxH Offline
                              HornOxx
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                              Wow Hellnbak 😍 πŸ‘ thanks, but yourΒ΄s is ingenious basket weaving indeed !!! - to lay my few base geometries flat on the floor and to copy paste them is not difficult at all - but how did you bend your fabric like a tire ?!

                              never trust a skinny cook

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                              • hellnbakH Offline
                                hellnbak
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                                Thanks, HornOxx. I really don't remember how I did it, but your Metal Fabric is much more impressive to me. Well done πŸ‘ !

                                "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                                • S Offline
                                  serrot
                                  last edited by

                                  Nice work, would love to see this applied as skin to a building.

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