Taekle, I love what you have started here (soundtrack: standing ovations)
please continue fascinating us.

Thank you for posting the screenshots, it does not look too difficult to learn DC. I for one don't feel afraid of the learning curve in SU. Although it will take some time to get into it.
As Edson says:

"I have always thought DCs have great potential. the problem with them seems to be the need to understand all those formulae. I am sure it would be put to more uses if we were able to understand how it works."

why not have a workshop of some sort?

TIG, that 'EEbyRailsByFace' is a nice one!

Jeff, no question Rhino and Grasshopper have superior parametric modelling. But I am more looking at the effect that by showing examples you keep pushing us SketchUp folks here and I like that. (Quite often I heard "No way you modeled and rendered all this within SketchUp")

By the way: do you still remember Blend plugin?

Hi, I am not using Vray though, but try to give some hints:

1st: better ask this question in the Vray subforum here on SCF
2nd: take your time to research and evaluate, You won't get lasting high quality, low cost and fast rendering at the same
3rd: the number of processors is important for rendertimes - the more cores, the faster
4th: take a look at how GPU-rendering is developing atm, If you want what VrayRT can do, get one or more of the best graphics cards

...hope this can give a start for orientation - good luck!

Now I know Fred, you came with the Enterprize through a wormhole from the future back to us - thats why your work looks so perfect and you keep constantly producing these beauties as if it was nothing

Bryan, of course this is intelligent glass filled with swithable kryptonite-LCD...

Almost unbelievable.

Thank you for sharing Taek

Unfortunately I don't know anything about creating DCs, but I am really interested in how you are doing this. Could it even be possible to make them interactive in order to tweak the patterns?

Very promising, keep them coming...

My gosh, this is great!

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Looks like you are you are becoming my hero in proving that there are a lot of possibilities to make parametric stuff in SketchUp...
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=30576

And also: Welcome to the Forum!

cheers
alex

Thank you Bohdan, now it works perfectly!!

Thanks for bringing up Tree(d) again. I already abandoned it because the of the limited export formats - but I just realized that I didn't have the newest version.

So for anyone who is scratching his head like I did:

Download Tree(D) version 3.1 because in v3.0 there is no obj-export available.

Now it works with TIGs obj-importer, but for some reason the materials don't get imported.
Any idea what I am doing wrong here?

Woohoo! Just love your plugins Mr. Polygon, thanks a lot!

very welcome! would like to see some of your results posted here...

My best wishes Csaba! Enjoy your day to the maximum (but dont party too hard, we need your brain here, too)

happy, happy
alex

Yes it is all SketchUp. Try to learn how the plugins work that I have listed. In SU it is more a step by step process with little possibilties for later tweaking, but if you know what your result should look like and know the plugins' functions it should not be too difficult to figure out how to proceed.

short description on the test pictures in previous post:

1st: the white "octopus arms" are made using Components on Face plugin (suppose Jeff did the same on the red perforated tube, nice one Jeff!)
2nd: Taper Tool plugin makes it possible to shear components without making them unique
3rd: the pattern made of triangles was done with my "dropping pyramids" method.
4th: Lattice Maker plugin
5th: Slice Modeler plugin (plus coloured lights in Twilight Render)

Sorry if this is a bit more than you have asked for in the first place - it is not meant to be overburdening. When it is only perforated sheets that you need, stick with dropping pyramids.

Strong piece of painting, I like it a lot!

Did you paint the shadow of the tree as well, or did you use a filter on this?

should have read it first (and should have thought first)
But still this is very interesting - the quality of the lighting looks kind of promising...

Not like in 2008

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=328&t=30564

Holy cow! is this a fly-through with raytracing? There are big things ahead...
thanks Jan!

Right Jeff, what can be done in SU might be limited, but I found it very surprising how much is in fact possible to achieve. SketchUp is my favorite because the approach is so straight forward, and as long as I can draw something in SU why should I use another application?
For example the plugin parametric array for Max (free version is limited) gives great results, but I am not sure If I will ever buy the licenses needed.
Something like your example might be possible by using FFD plugin. Also there are a variety of plugins like Components on Face, Tapertool, Grow, Slice Modeler, Lattice Maker or Qhull I have been playing with lately. Just one year ago I would not have imagined being able to model things like this in SketchUp.
Here are some test renders I have found:

SU-san

Jan is right, definitely postpro.

LightUp can do texture animation and fly-through:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=29981