Architectural renderings are a big part of my job. And NPR (non-photorealistic rendering) is awesome – making art from a computer model. The free Apple app Prisma-AI first caught my eye because it contains the letters “AI.” Artificial Intelligence combined with photo editing = cool. This could only mean great automation of images. And I’d say that’s the case […]
No, this isn’t a cooking blog. But SketchUp and a 3D printer just might help you improve in the kitchen. Every year in early summer, we’re part a group of about 20 families that head out for a few days to beautiful Cacapon State Park in West Virginia. And every year we put on some sort […]
In Part 1 of this series, we learned how to project and sample a material to apply it to an organic face (a blanket). And in Part 2 we used a similar technique of a temporary face to do the same thing. In this post, I’ll show how to apply your own texture to the […]
In Part 1 of this series we started with a model of a bed covered with a rumpled blanket. When this blanket is painted with a texture, it comes in as a jumbled mess. To fix it, we learned how to project a texture, sample the texture, and apply the projected texture to the rest of the blanket. […]
This three-part series focuses on how to paint organic surfaces by projecting a texture. Specifically, we’ll see how to paint the rumpled blanket on this bed model: If you want to follow along at home, click the 3D Warehouse logo on the image above. That’ll take you to the page where you can download this model. […]
I have a colleague named David Thornburg, who is the Director of Education for Polar3D. (If you’re into 3D printing, check out Polar 3D – their printer works by spinning the circular build plate, rather than with lateral movements.) Recently I ran across a 3D printed seashell project that David posted on the Polar3D blog. He wrote […]
The previous three parts of this series focused on how to combine layers and scenes to present and view two (or more) design options for the same space. (See Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.) This last post focuses on a similar scenario – comparing material options for one part of a model. This requires the use […]
In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to create layers and place objects on them. In Part 2, I showed how to use copied objects to create an alternate room design. In this part, I’ll demonstrate the final step in this example: how to combine layers and scenes for easy viewing of both design options. Option 1 Layer […]
In Part 1 of this series, I started with this room design: I want to compare this room layout to another design. The first step, which I showed in Part 1, was setting up layers – one layer for each design. In this part, I’ll show how to use the layers to display the two different designs. […]
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