How the heck do I model this?

[Claudio Branch]

I feel so shamefully lazy...

 

 

Looks like it worked out. That is a very interesting challenge. Using particle systems with referenced geometry on a fixed emitter is what I would have done. Your solution is virtually the same.

[Chad Warner]

I tried the particle emitter, but I couldn't figure out how to get the pivot point where I wanted it.

[Claudio Branch]

If you use a "PF Source" particle system it allows you to reference an object as your emitter. So manipulating the pivot point of your referenced object emitter would be pretty easy.

[creasia]

I love it. I was going to suggest the same method.

 

Shaun

[suthern_boy]

Z-Brush dude!!

[Jeff Mottle]

Client requested light sculpture. I don't even know where to begin, so any help is appreciated. I use 3ds Max for modeling.

 

Thanks,

 

Chad

 

 

Interesting, I just saw that glass sculpture last week when we did the tour of Chihuly at Phipps in Pittsburgh during the ASAI conference http://www.phipps.conservatory.org/chihuly/gallery.html#popup

[Chad Warner]

I should have just had you take a picture for me! They're very cool sculptures.

[Jeff Mottle]

I should have just had you take a picture for me! They're very cool sculptures.

 

I have a quite few pics if you still want them.

[intero_ua]

Let me put my 2 cent into this thread as well.

Me personally think that this stuff can be modeled like this: (sorry for low quality product, but i was just trying to see if this is possible to model anything like that stuff at the original picture at the first page)

 

1. Create several helix spline objects.

 

http://www.interovisuals.com/temp/pic1.jpg

 

2. Make the tubes of those splines by using loft modifier, do not forget to apply UW maping as we will need it to create the color difference between roots and tips of those actual glass tubes

http://www.interovisuals.com/temp/pic2.jpg

 

3. Create an emitter object, does not really matter what size because we can always control the tubes scale when scattering them over emitter surface.

http://www.interovisuals.com/temp/pic3.jpg

 

4. Scatter glass tuber over emitter object by using "PF Source" particle system.

http://www.interovisuals.com/temp/pic4.jpg

http://www.interovisuals.com/temp/pic5.jpg

 

5. Convert particle object into geometry object by using "mesher" compound object.

http://www.interovisuals.com/temp/pic6.jpg

http://www.interovisuals.com/temp/pic7.jpg

 

6. That's pretty much all, now it is all about materials.

 

However, with scatter compound object you can keep all tubes parallel to normal of distribution object, that seems to work pretty well. I'll model one more models of this sculpture by using scatter object, just to see how it looks.

[intero_ua]

Oups, sorry i did not see that problem is actually solved already My bad