The best GPU of the 15th century!

[matteo]

Ladies and gentlemen,

mr. Paolo Uccello: he was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.

I've always loved his work, and recently I've stumbled upon this figure again- it's simply astonishing! every time.

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[Gaieus]

Indeed nice wireframe (although a little bit low poly for rendering I guess). What app did he use?

[pilou]

What is GPU?

[IdahoJ]

@unknownuser said:

What is GPU?

Graphics Processing Unit = Video card

[david_h]

Looks like he used an Early Version of Lathe.rb.

[charly2008]

I think he used the tool Quill Version 1397-1475

[mitcorb]

Notice, he kept his mesh clean. Almost all quads.

[Marian]

So.....uhm is anyone gonna attempt to make this one in SU?

[matteo]

The mazzocchio: a torus primitive.

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[matteo]

... and the dirty ruby script to draw a mazzocchio

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[matteo]

Finally textured and rendered

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[TIG]

@marian said:

So.....uhm is anyone gonna attempt to make this one in SU?
LathedVase.skp
A quick study using my Lathe.rb... you had to ask...

[matteo]

@gaieus said:

What app did he use?

The software was officially sold with the name of SuperDelineo or SupraDelineo, but most of its users called it simply SD (read 'eseh-dee). I dont know which version was used here.

[matteo]

Wow Tig! Quite perfect.

I may be wrong, but I suspect that the triangular faces are part of an array of pyramids surrounding the upper part of the cup.

Time for a lathe&array ruby plugin?

[TIG]

@matteo said:

Wow Tig! Quite perfect.
I may be wrong, but I suspect that the triangular faces are part of an array of pyramids surrounding the upper part of the cup.
Time for a lathe&array ruby plugin?

CF's Component Stringer does the job already - easily added with a small pyramid component [make path in two parts as it can't handle loops] - then explode instances back into main geometry...LathedVasePyramids.skp