How to create pavement art with SketchUp
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I guess I'm the last person on this forum to figure out how to do this, but nevertheless here it goes:
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Let's say you have a boring pedestrian street and you'd like to do some pavement art in Julian Beever's style. First, you decide where your observer will be and mark that point (In this case, SketchUp's Sang):
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Then you place a camera there, considering the eye height of the average person in your country, and start sketching your art. In this case, we want to create the illusion of a rectangular hole in the pavement with a strong presence of the Dark Side. You then export that image at a high resolution. Of course a rendered one would be cooler, but we're just illustrating the principle here.
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Now we take that exported (or rendered) image from step 2 and crop it in Photoshop checking the "perspective" option, carefully placing the control points in the four corners of the hole:
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If you did the cropping carefully, the proportions of the resulting image will correspond to that of the "hole" in the pavement.
Now all you have to do is transfer this to the street using your favorite method: Vinyl printing, projection, drawing by hand with the help of a grid, etc.
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I will have to try that in my driveway with my daughter. A fun weekend project for sure.
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Here I re-imported the final JPG as a texture and applied it to a face. Remember that the illusion only works from one point of view...
And I attached the .skp with two scenes: One shows the geometry used to create the texture, the other the applied texture (actually, an optimized version so you don't have to download such a big file).
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Tricky
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Tricky, but nice
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that screws with my mind
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Cool. I've always liked them pavement arts.
...but where do you get hold of a printer that takes pavement slabs?
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Miguel, this is great!
I wonder if it should rather go to the Tutorials forum@thomthom said:
...but where do you get hold of a printer that takes pavement slabs?
Actually, you can always project the image onto the pavement from somewhere above (moder projectors have projection settings for skewing the image and such) and paint by hand. -
and don't forget to take a picture of your pavement painting and post it here
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