@skaught said:

too late. lol

I can imagine some improvements to the function but
I didnt want to make things too involved.

you mean "soften/smooth edges" or some ruby ?

@solo said:

seems to be cropped to 500 pixels?

This is getting really exciting and fun,
really nice Solo !!

I really like the light, seems the one in some of the renderings of your villages

did you improve my pencils ? they look much nicer than the ones I drew

yes, it's cropped, but in these cases I use "view image" from firefox menu
to see the whole image, so no big problem

Here goes another one ...

This one is inspired by "Knot Structured"

knot structured glass.skp

@cosycat said:

This is just a preview - so a few artifacts

wow cosycat
that's so awesome !!

@rustyshack said:

Cagework, rendered in Artlantis, which is not really meant for this kind of thing

Thanks, nice work,
btw what is Artlantis meant for ?

ehaflett, thanks, it's fun to share ...

Thanks so much for your help,

I'll try with Windows safe mode on Saturday, 'cause I wont be at work tommorrow.
I'll tell you if it does work,

thx,
guz.

That could be a good solution,
is it difficult to mount the graphic cards ?
are they expensive ?

Thank's a lot,
I didnt know how to face this problem,

Your material may be approximated as the sum of two types of waves, the big ones and the tiny ones.
The big ones are a sin function, while the small ones have some cusps.
I wrote a formula for your material:

z = ( ((x-floor(x))*2 - 1)^2 - 1 )/3 + 1 * sin(x/2 - y/6)

it reproduces the dunes of your material,

you can have a look at the result in the image or by going to
http://www.archimy.com/ and pasting the code

tmin = -12
tmax = 12
tgrid = 2000

x = t
z = ( ((t-floor(t))*2-1)^2 - 1 )/3 + 1 * sin(t/2 - y/6) 

["Floor" stands for the "bigger integer number less than"]

You can change the numbers to tune the result:
z = ( ((t-floor(t))*2-1)^2 - 1)/3 + sin(x/2 - y/6) * 1

y/6 -> change the 6 to change the angle between waves
( ((t-floor(t))*2-1)^2 - 1)/3 -> change the 3 to change small waves height
1 * sin(x/2 - y/6) -> change the 1 to change big waves height
x/2 -> change the 2 to change the ratio between small and big waves

You're allowed to use decimal numbers.

I dont know how to draw a graph in SU.

Hope this helps.

I hope to find a solution 'cause otherwise I wont be able to make my (middle school) students use Sketchup
and that would be very sad,

Modifications, variations, new creations, renderings, ... are welcome.

Here's a model that somehow shows how to build the "Cagework_1":

cagework_1_construction.skp

@linea said:

Guzman, I like these.

You might enjoy the 3d app Groboto if you don't already know about it.

(www.groboto.com)

Thanks,

I installed and played a bit with Groboto.
It's interesting but the results are too random for my taste, I'm more interested in structures than artistic sculpture.

@sketch3d.de said:

run XP in safe mode

Thanks Norbert,

I'll try that.

Grazie Matteo

I hope you dont mind if I post more of them.
So here are two more.
Images and models.

I'll improve pencils in the next version, to make them more realistic.

George Hart's scupltures:
72pencils
cagework1

72pencils.skp

Cagework_1b.skp

@solo said:

I hope you do not mind me running a fast render.

Wow !!!

that's fantastic,
what did you use ?

thanks a lot.

I'm having fun creating the SU models of George Hart's Geometric Sculptures:
here's one of his works, Bathysphere
here's the complete list

Here's my model of the "Bathysphere".
It's really fun building these models with components.
It may be interesting to render it but I never used renders yet.

I also added the skp model.

bathysphere.skp

@solo said:

It should work, you may need to turn off 'accelerated graphics' to 'software' in preferences.... if you can get SU to actually start.

Thanks Solo,
the problem is I cant get su to start, it freezes at startup without showing the menu bar.

Is there any way to set preferences from a command line ?

thanks.

@solo said:

I suspect that may indeed be the issue, what operating system are you using?

XP, sp 2
AMD sempron

@solo said:

I believe your systems run on a North bridge Via mobo, with integrated graphics right?

I dont know, how can I check that ?

[igp actually stands for integrated graphics processor]

thanks