Interesting what throwing a porn star into the mix did - not one comment about the images. Shows you where our priorities are!

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Still looks hot to me. I got this recurrent dream in which Lords and Sarah Palin disciplin me for being a naughty, naughty boy.

Thought I'd share that.

Maybe too much information?

Stopped into a store called Stinky's in Brooklyn yesterday to buy cheese and sausage.

Ah, she was such a beauty in her youth!

modo?

Have to admit that the 'ribbed' look of the original has a nice quality to it. Could be a useful technique for something else.

These are incredible - especially the waxy shine. I have some apples sitting next to me on a tray. I can compare them to yours and yours are perfect. So Blender is worth learning?

I don't think this can be done in SketchUp - but I wish it could.

I'm a stairbuilder and I use SketchUp to lay out parts for the shop to cut. Often my stairs are very complicated and I'd like a Ruby that either didn't allow two (or more) objects to intersect one another or, that the intersecting areas would change color to red or something visible so I could 'see' that two of my parts are overlapping.

When I get to a situation where I've got a newel post and a curved tread and curved stringer and a riser, etc. all meeting at one place, it's very easy to not see that something is intersecting with something else - until my assistant starts complaining after cutting material and finding it doesn't work the way I told him it would. Going to wireframe or xray doesn't help.

Ideally I'd like to be able to go to wireframe and see red shapes wherever two objects intersected.

I have this problem also and it's very frustrating.

In some sense my edges must be planer because I can generally break the face into smaller and smaller triangles, all of which become individual faces, until I finally coax the final rectangle to become a face. Then I go back and delete all of the triangle lines except the original outer perimeter and I have a face.

It's frustrating because the outer lines are planer or they're not. If SketchUp can finally make a face after I've broken it into many triangles it is planer but for some reason SketchUp doesn't 'know' this until I've gone through this process of breaking it up into smaller and smaller triangles.

Very convincing image! It's frosted, it's cold. I want to drink from it. I can feel the icy surface in my hand. Did you take it into modo as a SketchUp model?

I'm confused by the geometry of the 2nd image. It's as though the perspective is backwards or something. It bothers me - in a good way I guess, but it bothers me.

Really nice light on the wood desk tops. Very warm, very quiet. Very nice image.

I think this thread is assuming a false dichotomy - photoreal vs artistic. I don't think that an image that is more 'sketchy' is necessarily more artistic (I kind of hate the term artistic). Would you consider Stinkie's doors less 'artistic' because they are quite photoreal? The doors are some of the most interesting images that have appeared on this forum.

Granted, there is a certain dead end quality to the whole photoreal process - ultimately you're trying to make it look as much like a photograph as possible and that's kind of the death of interpretation. But, alternately, the whole sketchy thing can easily fall into cliche as well - lots of fake brush work and squiggly lines doesn't immediately translate into quality. It's really a question of what you do with the image.

The important question to me is - 'what would your image look like if you had no client, no predetermined parameters to work with?' If you're given free rein to do as you wish, do you end up with a body of work that feels consistent and personal? Whether it's photorealistic or something else doesn't determine the answer to that question. Solo and Stinkie are each staking out very individual bodies of work on either side of this dichotomy, but they're both very successful at what they're doing.

@unknownuser said:

Anyway, Weld was the only exception I asked the IT guys to install when they install SU on the computers. Yes, it IS part of the program (you just install it separately)

Okay, I'll bite - what is Weld and what does it do?

Thanks Jeff. 10.5 will still be a good upgrade for him.

My 8 year old has a G4 laptop (hand me down from his aunt). I'm a PC person and know nothing about Macs. Question - can I buy him the new OS version and install it on this laptop?
TIA

I still think it's Al Hirschfeld

Hirschfeld?

In New York -
Chinatown, especially the far eastern section which is more connected to mainland China than it is to mainland USA.
Chelsea art galleries.
Wander around the lower east side and the east side of Soho (beyond Lafayette into the neighborhood which used to be Little Italy)
The store Evolution in Soho (skeletons, fossilized snakes, spiders, meteor fragments, etc.)
MOMA and the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Natural History
The top of the Empire State Building
JandR in lower Manhattan for computer stuff
The Apple store across from the Plaza Hotel
Jacques Torres chocolates on Hudson St
Johns Pizzeria on Bleecker
Peter Luger's steakhouse in Brooklyn (if you can spend approx. $100 per person)
Central Park

In the best of your work, I always find there's something that at first seems secondary but in fact is primary to the image - the inconsistent reflection on the doors in the first picture in that series, or the soft glow on the black floor under the cabinet in the background of the second cabinet image. In this image it's the walkway or the roadway that I think gives the buildings their haunting(?) quality.

Whatever, a great pleasure to check into this forum and find more work by you.

Same here. Overlapping planes either have no intersections inference or it's very weak - I get a flickering intersection symbol but it's hard to select.