[Plugin] Teapot
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Has anyone any experience with Martin Newell's dataset for the teapot and the accessories? I'm still wondering why the spoon has a bad vertex. Corrupt data set? Is the original like that?
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@thomthom said:
Has anyone any experience with Martin Newell's dataset for the teapot and the accessories? I'm still wondering why the spoon has a bad vertex. Corrupt data set? Is the original like that?
Hi thomthom
May be this dataset of Newell teapot mathematical model (taken from Wikipedia_Utah Teapot)will make sense to you (as it is Chinese to me)
originaly: Original data set (tgz)And these pictures from the Computer History Museum
Utah Teapot
c. 1974
Melitta, United States
Gift of Martin Newell, X398.84
Originally purchased by graduate student Martin Newell in a Salt Lake City, Utah, department store, this ordinary teapot became a famous model used by many pioneers of the computer graphics community. Researchers developing rendering algorithms for texture and shading tested them on the data that described the teapot’s shape. The actual teapot is about 30% taller than many of its computer-generated images because the data was originally recorded for the rectangular pixels of early displays.
++ simon;)
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Sorry
What are "Voxels" in these images ? 
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@simon le bon said:
May be this dataset of Newell teapot mathematical model (taken from Wikipedia_Utah Teapot)will make sense to you (as it is Chinese to me)
It make sense - it's the dataset I used when I wrote the plugin.
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@thomthom said:
It make sense - it's the dataset I used when I wrote the plugin.
I can imagine you had already made deep searches.
So, as I am not the right fellow to speak about the code, I just try a last proposition:
taken from: Graphics Links at Holmes3D.net_The Utah Teapot
http://www.holmes3d.net/graphics/teapot/teaspoon.bpt(7.358o VS 7.936o in the original dataset)
and a last site: [url=http://www.sjbaker.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_The_Teapot:3otvwnby]The History of The Teapot[/url:3otvwnby]
simon -
Uuuum, I always drink tea, while using sketchup...
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A nice animation explaining quickly the history of the teapot:
[flash=600,450:2qhvtpvl]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7439194&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0[/flash:2qhvtpvl]
Reference: http://www.unfold.be/pages/5/items/85
(I want their teapot!)
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Hey Thomthom
something odd happened today when I was installing your teapot plugin.
Although I'm not sure it's due to the plugin itself, probably more like it's the EW's fault, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, I already had cleanup, v-ray toys and selection toys installed (all through the EW), as well at TT_lib².
But when I installed the teapot, nothing happened.
Well, not exactly nothing. I got the toolbar, and the webdialog asking me how many segments etc., but no pot.
So I restarted SU, nothing changed.
Then I checked your teapot EW page, and noticed "TT_lib² needs to be installed", and I'm thinking "didn't I already have that?" but the EW window said I didn't. So I clicked install.
But again, nothing changed.
So I restarted SU and all of a sudden: lots of error messages! Most of them telling me TT_Lib² was not there. (checked plugins folder; its there. checked SC pluginstore extension list; it's there. Cleanup'd a model: worked.) But the thing that was really gone, was the teapot plugin. All of it.
So I de-installed both TT_lib and Teapot (EW still thought it was there) and re-installed both of them, and now everything works again.But still. Thought I'd let you know about this. Really strange behaviour!
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Could it be that you ended up with files in Virtual Store?
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I would've thought the generated meshes would be Quad-Face'd?
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Ah yea... it should... but it doesn't. It pre-dates QuadFace Tools.
Added issue: https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/teapot/issue/1/add-support-for-generating-quads
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