Simple and neat solution

Ah Gai, I see your married too

Oli,
Good on ya for replying.

GForce,
In a previous post:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=125&t=5772
You said:

@unknownuser said:

I recently made this human research centre in Google sketchup.
It is the maximum i can het out of the program so far, after using it for 1 year or something.

But now:

@unknownuser said:

I'm not very impressed. In sketchup everyting look's good very easy

and:

@unknownuser said:

This is what i think a 12 year old boy should be able to do with skecthup at that age

Gai,
I too still 'play' with Lego, In fact my last purchase was only about a month ago ( A remote controlled Catapillar bulldozer if you must know). There is usually 1 of 2 reasons I'll get a kit:
One - It gives me something to distract me when I'm in one of my cluster headache .....err clusters.
Two - I've been bounced from project to project without anything being finished to the point that I need to build something, anything AND FINISH IT just to get a sense of achievement.

Anyway, why the hell should I stop having fun just because I'm 'Too old to play with toys'

Fantastic Model and images.

Right here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=&ie=UTF8&ll=54.579894,-5.939245&spn=0.000819,0.002229&t=k&z=19&om=1
At the end of the row.

I second Bob's comment, the use of colour is very effective.

Beautiful presentation, very simple.

Everybody, this is Oli, he's the lad I was telling you about and the one responsible for the model above.

Yesterday my boss asked if I would have a chat with the grandson of one of his friends who was interested in computers.
OK said I (what else could I say to my boss).

So at about 2pm in rolls this 12year old lad.

So, I was expecting it to be a session of "what does that button do?" and "can you play games on that?"
But no....what we have here is a boy genius who has his own network at home (server & 10ish pc's) understands, and as far as I could make out helps manage his parents business network (about 400+ pc's) and it turns out has used Sketchup.

He asked me "Do you want to see what I did in Sketchup"
"OK I say" whilst mentally preparing all the usual nice thinks you'd say when confronted with what you'd expect a 12year old kid to have produced.

So he downloads the attached model and apologises as "its not that good as he was only 11 when he did it"

What you looking at(assuming you opened the model) is the theatre at his school, he took no measurements and built it all by eye.

Needless to say I was a bit gobsmaked and my rehearsed lines were somewhat redundant.

Have a look, I think you'll be impressed.

ondaatje with colours.skp

Holy cow poo, that's looking good.
The atmosphere is spot on but it need some reflection/shiny stuff to lift the flatness a bit.

Remember its a model of a building not the building its self, you can (if your allowed) cheat/lie a bit with materials and maybe make for example the floor out of a polished stone instead of carpet.

Pedro,
Just posted a link on another thread (Lewis's) regarding an article on the BBC website:

410 Gone

(www.sketchucation.com)

Might be worth a look

How does that roof over the ground/first floor work, what's behind it?

Quote:
Durant "I'm in" Hapke

Yessss!

William Shatner and Stevie Nicks = Stevie Shatner-Nicks

http://www.splashup.com/

Nice, the DOF is effective.

Mike,
Your quite right about the Cayenne.
I've got a Touareg and for looks it beats the Porsche into a cocked hat, I've always felt that the Cayenne was a Porsche too far. The Audi Q7, which despite its apparent bulk is actually the same vehicle as the VW and the Porsche can be a bit of a looker in the right colour but I'm beginning to feel a change in the wind with regard to this type of car.

I'll usually do the complete opposite of what ever the media hyped popular consciousness of the moment is but even I'm having trouble justifying my current mode of transport, Its only a 2.5 diesel and although its about 25mm shorter and narrower than the BMW 535 I want it feels and looks a hell of a lot bigger.

The BMW X6 will find buyers with out any problem but I cant help thinking that it would have been better to have built it using the X3 as a base instead of the X5.

Lewis, (and other Roman architects)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6743991.stm

With luck you should be able to see this outside the UK, if not here's the text:

Ancient Rome has been brought back to life through a unique digital reconstruction project, said to be the world's biggest computer simulation.

An international team of architects, archaeologists and experts spent 10 years working on a real-time 3D model of the city called Rome Reborn.

Some 7,000 buildings were scanned and reproduced using a model of the city kept at a Rome museum.

Users enter the city at the time of Constantine and see inside buildings.

The simulation takes place in AD320, which is said to be the city's peak, when it had grown to a million inhabitants.

"We can take people under the Colosseum and show them how the elevators worked to bring the animals up from underground chambers for the animal hunts they held," said Bernard Frischer, the project's leader who heads Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

The simulation reconstructs the interior of about 30 buildings - including the Senate, the Colosseum and the basilica built by the emperor Maxentius - complete with frescoes and decorations.

The project brought together experts from the University of Virginia and the Los Angeles branch of the University of California, as well research institutes in Italy, Germany and the UK.

Technological feat

To create the simulation, digital images were taken of the vast Plastico di Roma Antica model kept at the Museum of Roman Civilisation as well as laser scans of Rome today.

3D image of the Forum
This is the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to study the history of Rome and many other great cities around the world
Bernard Frischer
Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

A panel of archaeologists also advised on how statues and monuments would look if they had not been darkened by pollution.

In addition, ancient maps and building catalogues detailing "apartment buildings, private houses, inns, storage facilities, bakeries and even brothels" were used, Mr Frischer said.

The project will be used to carry out further research into ancient Rome's way of life and will be updated according to new archaeological discoveries.

"This is the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to study the history of Rome and many other great cities around the world," he said.

"For example, in scholarly literature the Colosseum has a great reputation for being a great people mover where people could find their seats very quickly. But estimates of the carrying capacity vary wildly from 35,000 to 78,000," he said.

Talks are said to have begun with Linden Labs to make the entire simulation available on the internet through the company's virtual world Second Life.

The 3D animations based on the simulation will eventually be made available to tourists to prepare them for their visit to the Colosseum, the Forum, or the imperial palaces on the Palatine.

Nicely done,
I'm really impressed with the fact that with just 2 colours/timbers you created an instantly recognizable representation of the Empire State Building.

Also I like the fact that the legs are definitely holding the top up as opposed to them 'hanging' down from the top.

Stumble'd upon this site and the artwork is quite incredible.
http://www.danielsimon.net/index.html

A solution to your problem:

Move to the UK, nobody gives a rats ass about politics here apart from the politicians.