[WIP] Monumental Heart of Rome
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Hi all its my first post here, i think i'm going to "migrate" to sketchucation and continue to be a part of the "sketchunation"
Here is the work i'm doing as a hobby and to tunne my sketchup knowledge
It started just has a model of the republican forum, but it keeps on growing, first all the imperial forums and now the colosseum area also, i guess it will never stop as long as the pc keeps up whith all the geometry!
i´m currently just detailing existing models of the republican forum, and the colosseum area.
So here are some pictures of the work:
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some more pics
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hi elysium,
this is great stuff. my hat is off to you. being an architect and teacher your model touches me in more than one way.
keep up the good work. perhaps sometime in the future you will allow me to show the whole model to my students in brasil.
regards.
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Most impressive. Any chance a clay rendering or two could be done? Keep us posted on your progress.
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Hey Pedro (I'm assuming that it's you, as how many people would be doing this?)
Have you heard from an Oxford University historian named Matthew Nicholls? He was trying to track you down through the old Google forums; apparently he's writing an article about some aspect of the Forum Trajani that you have modeled. He also pointed out (after I shared the same Forum/Markets model with him that I sent you) that new research has indicated that some parts of the Forum of Trajan are different than we had imagined.
poster-Lewis Wadsworth
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Hello elysium,
Great detail. Keep us posted. How much time do you have into what you have complete? Good job.
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Amazing detail, must weigh heavy on your computer.
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So... this begs the question which has gnawed at scholars for centuries....
Was Rome built in a day?
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WOW! doesn't really cut it...but that's all I can squeek out right now:
WOW!
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Hi Pedro,
welcome here and please - PLEASE - keep posting!
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Inspirational
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Fantastic modelling.
I especially like the arena, it must have been pretty amazing being in their when it was full! -
Elysium,
magnificent work!Dylan,
being in the arena when it was full must have been amazing... unless you were in the very middle of the Colosseum being chased by a tiger! -
@unknownuser said:
being in the arena when it was full must have been amazing... unless you were in the very middle of the Colosseum being chased by a tiger!
Actually, guys, the arenaof an amphitheatre is that middle partwhere people were being chased by those tigers...
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thks for all your comments! its good to know someone likes what i'm doing!
the file now has 47.8 MB and will continiue to grow, it still lacks big areas like betwen the colosseum and the forum, and some buildings need some extra detail
I try not to give it too much detail because it´s suposed to be an urban model to understand the relations betwen all the buildings and the global look of the center of Rome.
But it still looks dead like lots of cardboard or clay buildings! i guess i need some good texturing, the geometry is there but the textures no, so im out on the hunt for classical textures.
Ron gave a great site: http://www.theinspirationgallery.com/
on the Architecture Borders section has some examples of what i'm looking for.
Lewis, happy to see you here! yes Matthew has contacted me, he has some great models too, maybe I can exchange some knowledge over ancient Rome with him.
About the Trajan Forum i have talked to James E. Packer who wrote the book The Forum Of Trajan, and aparently it is just the way you made it
Here are some more pics of some few building interiors:
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James E. Packer, version of the Forum of Trajan is absolutely fantastic!
Because he only modeled this forum he was able to give it some fantastic detail, that i can't hope to achieve!one of te remarks he made was the columns, mine are very simple, but when you have almost 1000 columns in the model, they become a big weight factor.
once again they need some texturing.
and yes if you guessed the stripes on the columns are the corrogate rust texture from Sketchup, with a diferent color lol
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Elysium,
Glad you migrated to this forum, otherwise many of us would have missed your great work. You mention this is your first post, but how long are you using SU ? This is not the work of a newby, or you must be a real SU-wizzkid.
Amazing pictures, amazing details. Just a hobby, just tuning your SU knowledge ??!!
Believe me, you are more than welcome to share your future SU-projects with us.
I look forward to be surprised, to be challanged by your great work.Greetings,
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Incredible work! Really outstanding detail and the city/street perspective really gave me the feeling of scale! Can't wait to see it textured!
Cheers,
- CraigD
P.S. I hope Lewis' friend's new discovery doesn't cost you too much re-work time!
- CraigD
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@elysium said:
James E. Packer, version of the Forum of Trajan is absolutely fantastic!
Hi Pedro. Do you mean that you've actually communicated with Mr. Packer? I really enjoyed his book on the Forum, even though I am hardly a classical scholar. His monograph was the one of the principal sources I had when I modeled the forum so long ago for my "gut" basic urban design class in Yale's architecture program. I particularly appreciated his descriptions and images of previous reconstructions of the monument...the Beaux Arts "imaginary" versions were insane and beautiful.
You're doing great with your model. If it becomes too cumbersome as a single file, you might try saving out individual structures or areas as components, editing them in separate SketchUp windows, and then reloading them into your main composite file when your edits are complete. I do this all the time for large projects.
--Lewis
poster-Lewis Wadsworth
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Pedro,
Just posted a link on another thread (Lewis's) regarding an article on the BBC website:Might be worth a look
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