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 Post subject: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:49 am  (#1) 
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Schmiegel at DeviantArt clued me on to this cool program. Just wanted to share the result here too. It exports stl files for those into 3D, but I am not so had no choice but do do screencapture grabs and additional tlc in GIMP. :)

Generated by Sculpture Generator 1 by Carlo H. Séquin, UC Berkeley (and some additional tlc using GIMP).


Click here for the Flickr (and additional details): http://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@N05/5396757177/in/photostream/

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 Post subject: Re: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:27 pm  (#2) 
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Why not another example. I used various blends of a coral texture that I recently released at Deviant (generated this texture artificicially via filters believe it or not; not all my textures are created this way, so wanted to say that). :)


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 Post subject: Re: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:17 pm  (#3) 
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lylejk,

Did you notice that the generator program will export an .stl file? That file can be imported into Blender.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:45 pm  (#4) 
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I know Bob, but I don't know how to 3D so fake it in GIMP. Maybe folk here are more adept at using 3D apps though. Pretty cool program for creating various minimal surfaces. Love math as art. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:56 pm  (#5) 
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I love the opening statement in the link you put up Lyle.

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Some of Brent Collins' recent wood sculptures can be understood geometrically as rings of saddle surfaces resulting from a toroidal warping of a truncated Scherk minimal surface.


Try that one on some of your friends. You'd definitely sound :geek y.


Click this link to see a 3D one. You have to look at it slightly cross-eyed until the two images converge into one. Don't understand why people save multicolored, blended images as gif files. Would have been much better as png or jpg files.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/SCULPTS/Fb5s8st.gif

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 Post subject: Re: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:23 pm  (#6) 
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lyle,

No prob, I have ever only experimented with Blender myself; I know there are others here that are more into it, and that comment was just to give a heads-up. :bigthup

Did you download the whole zip file? I'm pretty sure a person could expand the textures just by adding new ones to the images subdirectory. There seems to be three formats of textures: .gif, .ppm and .rgb. Gimp can open the and save .rgb, it's listed under Silicon Graphics Iris Image

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 Post subject: Re: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:36 pm  (#7) 
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"Some of Brent Collins' recent wood sculptures can be understood geometrically as rings of saddle surfaces resulting from a toroidal warping of a truncated Scherk minimal surface. "

wow ...it is so clear!

at least here in EUReKA

Well maybe in the rest of the world not everybody know exactly what is a toroidal warping of a truncated Scherk minimal surface , and the also part about the rings of saddle surfaces may sound a bit confusing :gaah


, but obviously after a few years of study at the MIT that should become evident

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 Post subject: Re: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:41 pm  (#8) 
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PS i love the coral thingy and also the first image is quite cool

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 Post subject: Re: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:44 pm  (#9) 
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Cool 3D view O, and thanks for the comments PC (hope you internet will get better soon; miss seeing your stuff). I did try do do just that Bob, but it didn't pick the textures I wanted. Probably could try nameing a targeted texture the same as one already in the directory to see if it will then use the new texture, but that's sort of a pain. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Sculpture Generator
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:00 pm  (#10) 
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In the /bin directory is a file named generator.tcl; it looks like it might be a Gtk+ file??? It has listings for the textures, backgrounds, etc. In a little while I'm going to tinker with it.

In the meantime, here's a preview of NASA's latest telescope design, after the budget cuts...
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