My family as vases
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I wanted to create an unusual family portrait. This one was made using SketchUp (with the Follow-Me tool and was ultimately printed on my new MakerBot. See if you can make out the faces...
The tutorial is posted here:
Turn Yourself into a Vase with SketchUp! (i.e. Making Revolved Portrait Sculptures from Silhouettes for 3D Printing) | SketchUp for Design
You likely have seen the effect before: An image like the one above shows some shapes that look like vases. After a little while, however, you notice that the curved shapes that define the vases are actually faces - or more specific: the negative silhouette of the faces.
SketchUp for Design (sketchupfordesign.com)
Makes for a great personal holiday present...
Cheers,
Alex -
Very cool.
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Took me a second.
Very cool indeed.
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Very clever idea
The Queen and Prince Philip had a not dissimilar combo vase made showing both of them - not readily possible with SUp's FollowMe, unless you make two halves and merge their meshes around a half-circle path [CurviLoft, EEby???, Artisan ?] and then merges two mirrored parts... It ends up looking wonky and poorly made until your brain clicks into 'negative mode'...
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Very nice, thanks for the tut
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The only example of when being negative is quite positive.
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Very clever
I must admit that I needed the hint about thinking negatively before I saw the profiles. 
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@tig said:
The Queen and Prince Philip had a not dissimilar combo vase made showing both of them - not readily possible with SUp's FollowMe, unless you make two halves and merge their meshes around a half-circle path [CurviLoft, EEby???, Artisan ?] and then merges two mirrored parts... It ends up looking wonky and poorly made until your brain clicks into 'negative mode'...
Wow, great idea! Now if I can get four faces on the four "sides"... Come to think of it: I might try this with a cube.
@dale said:
The only example of when being negative is quite positive.
Haha...
Cheers,
Alex -
First attempt of a combined vase with Curviloft. Not bad, I just have to tweak alignment...
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Okay, it's in the MakerBot now. Here's a better version. Still not perfect but quite okay.
You can also look at the 3D model on Sketchfab: http://skfb.ly/l4hf1c0ba
Cheers,
Alex -
sympa ;o)
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I really like the way you can get 'a couple' commemorated like this in one thing... and they are looking at each other too !
It looks like a very poorly formed thing, until you know the secret of how to look at it and then it's wonderful -
Very cool idea Alex. I like the individual vases best.
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