JEEP 3D WALKROUND

GPW walkround from Greg Zambo on Vimeo.

Here it is. Original res is 800 x 600.
Render time for this (320 frames) was about 3 hours.
I also made a wharehouse with crates, rooflights etc. for background, but the render time for it was looking like 21 hours on my new Core Duo with 4GB of ram, so here is just the Jeep instead.

JEEP MODELLING FINISHED

Here it is with some textures. Modelling is pretty much done but I might try adding dirt for some extra realism. I might do a scene with it next if I can dream up something.

This will be going up for sale I think, but don't get the idea it could be a profitable exercise, the time it took to make is just nuts.

Jeep WIP update

Here is an update. Just to give you an idea of how much work it is to make this, this is file No. 340. Each time I update I up the number.

Gaston

Today I found this great free OSX Fractal program called Gaston. It makes 3D solids that you can rotate and he controls are simple sliders so you don't need a calculus degree to use it.
It's named after Gaston Julia, who we have to thank for the discovery of the Julia set.
Here's the page where you can get it .
I asked Leo if I could export the models but sadly it is not possible, so my search for a way to make them into real objects is once again foiled unless I reconstruct the shape from images.
You can also see that the shapes do not seem to be the same type of thing as the previous orbital -types seen below, made with Fracture.

Jeep Work in progress

This is something I have been working on for a while. The good part is that there are heaps of photos and drawings to work from, the bad part is that no decent plans were available for the whole thing, so although some parts are definitely right ( e.g. the grill was traced from a photo as was the dash) the overall layout is an educated guess. The other side is not finished but it looks good from this view.

Fractals in 3D part 3

My greatest annoyance is that the original images just never seem to have enough detail ! If I had the patience I might try to slice the original up into layers and fudge in the hidden detail so that it could be constructed as a whole multi-layer 3D solid - but there just isn't the time to do that. Maybe some fractal whiz can write a script that would draw just one layer of this at a time. I layered 3 variations on the same design and coloured them differently to get the final image.

Fractals in 3D part 2

This was an idea I had for making fractal furniture: this would be two table legs.
Of course, it has the same surface effect as previously noted but also as the detail gets smaller in the focii things blob out - still regardless of that, it would make some pretty unique furniture and you could cut the shapes on CNC equipment. Since the shapes are purely math, in theory the CNC could cut very, very fine detail.