Sculptures

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Lyle got me back into this. :lol

Created this in Sculpture program and then added some spheres to it in Gimp.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

lol; yeah. This one's addicting. When I'm not doing mathmap spheres to share what I can do with the seamless textures I concoct (my Deviant), I use sculpture generator to show what my textures can do.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

looks a lot like a spirograph web

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Sculpture-3 with wire frame.

Hey Lyle i can not remember how to save these as PNG in actual pixel size.Do you know how?
I have been saving them via FastStone Screen Capture.Works okay but i would like more detail.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Settings for that last one.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

Only way I know to save the result is screen capture Rod which is sad. I did try to download a 3D application and opened up saved results in it but not that happy with doing that either. Pretty much no choice but to printscreen (sad oversite by the developer).

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

lylejk wrote:

Only way I know to save the result is screen capture Rod which is sad. I did try to download a 3D application and opened up saved results in it but not that happy with doing that either. Pretty much no choice but to printscreen (sad oversite by the developer).

Yeah that is really too bad.

Still fun to mess with though.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

Weird; never recalled ever playing with the wireframe aspects of Sculpture Generator. No reason to start another thread. Used enviromental mapping capabilities of SG for this one.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Hmmm, maybe there is a way to code a save image button into the program.

Are the wireframes patterns or part of the program? I don't recall ever using it.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

It is Mahvin; I never recalled playing with it either. lol

Just wish I was a tickle coder (believe it's written in TCL but I'm not sure; vaguely remember that we edited the generator.tcl file to get better resolution abilities.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Yes (TCL) we did, and this has me thinking code can be added to save images from the generator.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

That would be awesome Mahvin.Which file do you edit?

Wireframe is pretty cool.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Would that be the generator.tcl file under this part of the code?

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proc save_file {} {
    global filename
    .view.gl_win SaveSpec $filename
}

proc load_file {} {
    global filename
    .view.gl_win LoadSpec $filename
}

proc export_file {} {
    global filename
    .view.gl_win Export $filename
}

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

This is interesting
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www ... l/tcl.html

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Figured this out :lol

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

I was able to add the command but upon trying it i got an error.
By adding this line

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$m1 add command -label "Export PNG"    -command "GetFilename . exportPNG"

After line #731

stack trace error

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bad window path name ".file.button.ok"
    while executing
"pack $w.button.ok $w.button.cancel -side left -padx .2c -pady .2c"
    (procedure "GetFilename" line 44)
    invoked from within
"GetFilename . exportPNG"
    (menu invoke)

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Okay i will leave it at this -

Hopefully someone can come along and get the command to work.
I still get that same error.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

I just found out that Blender can open STL files.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Do they look ok? I got the tcl to accept a filename, but the file loads up in GIMP, corrupted, so I think it needs an export function scripted into the TCL.

paynekj · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:08 am **(#20)**

I know some TCL/TK, so where do I find the source?

This is conjecture, but if it's using a Tk canvas to draw the lines on then it should be easily possible to output a postscript file.

Further, if it is a canvas, and the lines are created as line items, then it might be possible to write some code to output it as an svg, then import it as a path.

Kevin