Steam Engine- Working Model in SketchyPhysics

[Jackson]

Just a few pics of this working model of a steam engine I did using SketchyPhysics- the model is posted in the SketchyPhysics subforum.

http://www.sketchucation.com/scf/viewtopic.php?f=129&t=3115

As I explain there, it's not finished and probably never will be, but I thought I may as well post it for others to play with.

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[vanni31]

Wow !!!!this is very cool :thup: :thup:
These are the objects that I like
thank you

[boofredlay]

Nice Jackson.

Did you purposefully blurr the image in certain areas to make it look as though it was a photograph focused in the center? Nice effect.

[Jackson]

Thanks Eric,

The best thing about it (if I may say so ) is setting it going using the SketchyPhysics plugin- it's great fun watching it slowly start moving before getting up to full speed.

The blur is done using Lewis' brilliant SU Fog/Styles trick to create a depth map from SU and then copying that to the alpha channel in PhotoshopCS3 and applying the "Lens Blur" filter to select the focal distance and depth of field.

http://www.sketchucation.com/scf/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=1156&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=depth+depth+map