An exercise: DRAWING A PARISIAN FENCE

Box

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.

TaffGoch

I found, online, this drawing from an old book...

...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:

-Taff

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

simon le bon

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 :

friendly, simon

TaffGoch

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

-Taff

d12dozr

TaffGoch,

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

TaffGoch

@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):

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

-Taff

d12dozr

TaffGoch,

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

TaffGoch

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

TaffGoch

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

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

d12dozr

Thank you Taff.

August

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I31pi-6NgqM

Just FYI.

August

August

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

pilou

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

gilles

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTYxjK4Aqw

dale

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

TaffGoch

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@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

gilles

@taffgoch said:

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@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.

jeff hammond

@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.