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    An exercise: DRAWING A PARISIAN FENCE

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    • BoxB Offline
      Box
      last edited by

      Just to help possibly simplify the animations for you.
      Use scenes, create one scene at front one scene at back( or side to side, whichever works best for you) and export the animation as JPGs.
      You can specify how many Frames per second in the export and resolution then combine in the gif program of your choice.

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      • simon le bonS Offline
        simon le bon
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        very easy indeed dear Box

        Here is my "BoxCube" 😉 made in a minute with 41 pics 320X240 = 283 Ko

        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/generalPicts/BoxCube.gif

        ++simon

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        • BoxB Offline
          Box
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          Happy to help.
          You can use this method for any number of scenes, so the cube can roll over or zoom in and out or even fly off the screen.
          And reducing the number of colours in the gif will bring the file size down, I make a lot of animated avatars for people on another site and the file limit there 19.5 kb, so you learn to get everything out of each pixel.

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          • TaffGochT Offline
            TaffGoch
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            I found, online, this drawing from an old book...

            3knot.png
            ...and wanted to produce the center "coil" in SketchUp. After trial-and-error with the torus "grid" spacing, I finally was able to model (and render) this:

            Torus3.jpg
            -Taff


            Model available in the Google 3D Warehouse:
            http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c7113517b4de5d982137e32e8ebf2b1

            http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/download?mid=c7113517b4de5d982137e32e8ebf2b1&rtyp=lt&ctyp=other&ts=1281117295000

            "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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            • simon le bonS Offline
              simon le bon
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              Dear Taff,

              Seems to be an interesting variation of our exercise.
              I'm actually a bit too much out of the game to participate actively. You know, holidays, taking some rest, and big business with my garden etc..

              first dissection 😉 :

              http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/ParisianFence032_th.jpg


              http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/ParisianFence033_th.jpg

              friendly, simon

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              • TaffGochT Offline
                TaffGoch
                last edited by

                I didn't think there were enough colors & shadow details in the first render... 😆

                Facetted_3.jpg
                -Taff

                "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                • D Offline
                  d12dozr
                  last edited by

                  😲 TaffGoch,

                  that's psychedelic! Can you pleasetell how you made the color gradients? ...is that done in Kerkythea? The coloring especially is super neat 👍

                  3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                  http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                  • TaffGochT Offline
                    TaffGoch
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                    @d12dozr said:

                    ...Can you pleasetell how you made the color gradients? ...is that done in Kerkythea? The coloring especially is super neat 👍

                    Marcus,

                    I created, in Photoshop, three radial gradients...
                    SketchUp_materials(textures).png
                    ...for use as projected textures in SketchUp. I scaled and positioned the projected textures, while in SketchUp...

                    ...and, when exported to Kerkythea, the materials are retained as "Diffuse" reflectance bitmaps (with their proper rotated/projected positions):

                    Kerky_screengrab.jpg
                    In the "Material Editor", I added "Specular" and "Fresnel-ramp"(procedural) settings, to give the surfaces a mild metallic appearance.

                    -Taff

                    "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                    • D Offline
                      d12dozr
                      last edited by

                      TaffGoch,

                      Thank you for the explanation, you're like a magician with Sketchup, except that you will share your 'tricks' 😆

                      3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                      http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                      • TaffGochT Offline
                        TaffGoch
                        last edited by

                        Marcus (and any other interested parties,)

                        I've attached the Kerkythea "scene" file, so you can examine the material settings for the metallized colors.

                        I "jazzed" the color/specular settings a bit more:

                        Metallized colors
                        I used MLT, and let the render run overnight (about 350 passes.) The above is a 50% scaled jpeg. The original is 1100x1100 pixels.

                        -Taff


                        Kerkythea "scene" file

                        "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                        • TaffGochT Offline
                          TaffGoch
                          last edited by

                          Before "metallizing;" rendered, straight from SketchUp (no material editing in KT):

                          ![Before "metallizing"](/uploads/imported_attachments/QWjy_Color3.jpg "Before "metallizing"")
                          -Taff

                          "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                            d12dozr
                            last edited by

                            Thank you Taff.

                            3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                            http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                            • A Offline
                              August
                              last edited by

                              Please forgive me reviving an old thread but this entire thread is definitely one of my all time SketchUcation favorites. The depth of tutorial information in this thread is just awesome.

                              AND, there is new and hopefully relevant information to add. The GIF that by Cosycat that was posted by simon le bon on Sun Jul 25, 2010 has now officially gone viral.

                              I have seen it as the Profile image on Facebook by someone who had never heard of SketchUp. It is also regularly used by "vsauce" as a background in many of his videos, as seen here starting at 0:25.

                              Just FYI.

                              August

                              “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
                              [floatr:v1mcbde2]-- Charles Dickens[/floatr:v1mcbde2]

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                                August
                                last edited by

                                Page 3 of this thread, near the bottom, has a post
                                by simon le bon » Sun Jul 25, 2010,
                                with an image that seems to be making its way into the pop culture.

                                Today Lady Gaga's Facebook page featured this image:
                                https://littlemonsters.com/post/52d986cec214e4e4488b4c27

                                https://d2g892zuoe3k49.cloudfront.net/4fc06d51c64dfcba5500b268/584976895_700.jpg

                                “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
                                [floatr:v1mcbde2]-- Charles Dickens[/floatr:v1mcbde2]

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  Very similar to this one by Viralata 😄
                                  (a specialist Blender / Architecture)

                                  http://www.viralata.fr/wp-content/gallery/displacement/2rondscouleur.jpg

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                  • gillesG Offline
                                    gilles
                                    last edited by

                                    Pour revenir au sujet:
                                    Coming back to the first post:

                                    " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                                    • daleD Offline
                                      dale
                                      last edited by

                                      Simon...... are you still out there?

                                      Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                                      • TaffGochT Offline
                                        TaffGoch
                                        last edited by

                                        %(#BF0000)[
                                        @gilles said:

                                        Pour revenir au sujet:
                                        Coming back to the first post....
                                        ]
                                        Thanks for posting! Great video, which I would never have otherwise seen.

                                        Fencing continues to be assembled by hand, using jigs.

                                        Hmmm, I built my SketchUp model by hand, using "jigs" (of a sort.)

                                        -Taff

                                        "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                                        • gillesG Offline
                                          gilles
                                          last edited by

                                          @taffgoch said:

                                          %(#BF0000)[
                                          @gilles said:

                                          Pour revenir au sujet:
                                          Coming back to the first post....
                                          ]
                                          Thanks for posting! Great video, which I would never have otherwise seen.

                                          Fencing continues to be assembled by hand, using jigs.

                                          Hmmm, I built my SketchUp model by hand, using "jigs" (of a sort.)

                                          -Taff

                                          Glad to see your always in the woods, much appreciate your works but you don't post enough.

                                          " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                                          • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                            jeff hammond
                                            last edited by

                                            @gilles said:

                                            Pour revenir au sujet:
                                            Coming back to the first post:

                                            good find 👍

                                            i would have guessed the assembly is more automated than this.

                                            dotdotdot

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