More than 1 TBD?
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http://originalmoron.sitesled.com/models.htm
I found the link to this site in the forum postings of a master of the inexpensive modeler AC3D. He signs himself there as "TBD." No, it's not the one you're thinking of. This TBD is a guy named Thor Danielson.
The quality of his modeling and the beguiling combinations he achieves of the organic and the orthagonal makes me want to give AC3D ( http://www.inivis.com/ ) a closer look as an add-on or accessory for SketchUp. Besides running on Linux, PCs, and Macs, it costs about $75 and will translate most 3D file types.
--Lewis
poster-Lewis Wadsworth
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sweet... this guy is for sure influenced by star wars and matrix... really knarly flying craft...
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Interesting tool, nice find.
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Thanks Lewis, good find. Downloaded it and played
a little bit. Easy enough to figure out so far
Mike
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Lewis - thanks - I really enjoyed seeing some of the insane models he's made (and so many available to download and look at!) Some of the ships vaguely remind me of Rodney Matthews art..
poster-Shaun Tennant
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I'm glad everyone's enjoying Thor's models. I wonder why he calls himself the "original moron" and his website "Moron Studios"? To my architect's eyes, his designs for aircraft and spacecraft seem strikingly original...not moronic at all.
Just today that program AC3D came up in a discussion I was having with Diego Matho at the Boston Architectural College about next fall's SketchUp classes (which I have agreed to teach again)...it's odd that Diego should have become aware of it at the same time as I did. It's my understanding that AC3D has been out there for nearly a decade, but that the developer has recently extended its capabilities. I've been reading the manual, and the clear interface with which one creates organic (subsurface-smoothed) objects from blocky faceted ones is something Google should emulate for SketchUp (assuming, that is, that Google continues developing SketchUp). AC3D also has a very nice built-in mechanism for reducing mesh object polygon count.
Incidentally, although it is available on all OS right now, on the Linux platform AC3D is about the closest thing to SketchUp, as far as I can tell. I could wish it had better snaps/inferences, but at least it has some, which makes it almost unique among the Linux-friendly modelers that I have evaluated.
--Lewis
poster-Lewis Wadsworth
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