Honeycomb lamp

[pilou]

Maybe this thread can interest you

[cotty]

You know where I would love to see this?
Very nice!

[olishea]

Thanks guys. D12 that was my intention and I have a lot more work to do on the rest of the range.

Hey Pilou, thanks for posting that, very inspirational. The key to a nice mesh is how you subdivide the 2D honeycomb structure first, otherwise shape bender makes it's own mind up.

It's a shame Shape Bender doesn't work on a closed loop.

Cotty, how can I forget, although it is no longer simple!

[Rich O Brien]

That's great

I was trying to come up with a Voronoi workflow recently. It quckly spiralled outta control...

[derei]

@rich o brien said:

That's great

I was trying to come up with a Voronoi workflow recently. It quckly spiralled outta control...

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that's awesome, dude !!

[pilou]

Just for the fun
A Zbrush fan of me Mealea Ying has made a special Multi Mesh Insert for Zbrush !

[olishea]

That's excellent Rich. I'd be interested in your workflow too. The render looks real This is where problem can lie with SU, it's hugely difficult to post-honeycomb a structure if you understand me. The mesh must relate to the structure when I believe there is an easier way of doing it. Rich I think you can make voronoi textures in photoshop using stained glass filter

SketchUp really isn't the best tool for these models, but I find its limitations/constraints can sometimes be inspirational...it helps me understand 3D better.

Yes Pilou, I remember seeing a frenchy pilou plugin on the internet and I thought "I know this guy, I know this guy!!"
I looked at using Wings 3D again for these models...it's just 100x quicker than SketchUp. Why is sketchup still so slow? Why does it slow to a snail's pace with heavy geometry when another app can open/navigate the scene fluidly? Will it always be like this? Sorry for the rant.

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

Why is sketchup still so slow?

At the base it's a "Box modeler", not a "Subdivison Modeler" and it has so many other things to manage!

Sure for this sort of things SU can't fight with ZB, Wings3D, Blender.. but it has a so sweet ergonomy!

[Rich O Brien]

@Oli

[olishea]

Lovely Rich. Did you vectorize a texture or something?

@unknownuser said:

Sure for this sort of things SU can't fight with ZB, Wings3D, Blender.. but it has a so sweet ergonomy!

I know I know, that's why I can't stop using it.

[Rich O Brien]

Thomthom's HeightMap to Mesh plugin on a 64px x 64px .bmp

Tried a 208px x 208px first but it buckled SU.

[olishea]

Oh yeah, great little plugin. Isn't there a plugin/algorithm to subdivide a face into these shapes? I'll look into some other techniques to achieve this. Imagine a Voronoi TOS

[Rich O Brien]

TIG's elegantly named Quadrilatelizer (which has a scrabble score of 968 with three triple word bonuses and bonus for all letters used) can generate a funky yet consistent results.

[olishea]

Thought so! Gonna give it a whirl now.

There seems to be a grasshopper workflow I may look into as well.

[Rich O Brien]

You need the patient of a saint to wait while SU crunches numbers....not worth the effort though....

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[Rich O Brien]

@unknownuser said:

So what is your secret ?

Mystérieux

[massimo]

Here's my go. Much better than Rich's

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

TIG's elegantly named Quadrilatelizer (which has a scrabble score of 968 with three triple word bonuses and bonus for all letters used) can generate a funky yet consistent results.

Yes but that is only quads!
Seems you have not only quads!

So what is your secret ?

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[Rich O Brien]

That's plagiarism

[pilou]

The Voro method by Mattc is fine but you must click twice the same number of faces!