Looks great Dan!

Yeah there should be quite a variety of patterned 3D shapes that will be a lot easier to construct with being able to build them in a flat plane to start out with.

For applying them on to a sphere it may be a good idea to leave a little bit of margin area between your objects and the top and bottom edges of the plane, because those regions are compressing down to just a single point on the sphere and probably creating some degenerate geometry there. Probably it's ok for stuff like rendering though.

- Michael

Nice! Flow is really going to simplify and make new types of models possible. Just need one of those new hobby 3D printers :)

Ed

Remember some volumes made with TopMod ;)
http://sjoo.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://code.google.com/p/topmod/ you can load this crazzy prog here ;)

Ha topmod... I played with it several years ago. At that time it was very unstable. Is it still buggy?

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;)

yes sure, but it's always funny to use with its fabulous functions :)

I still use TopMod once in a while, you just have to be very cautious.;)
Here's some Geodesics in trueSpace from TopMod:



Here's the Flow object with a basic gold material rendered in Modo:

Nice globus!

Thanks Pilou!

Michael Gibson wrote:

"For applying them on to a sphere it may be a good idea to leave a little bit of margin area between your objects and the top and bottom edges of the plane, because those regions are compressing down to just a single point on the sphere and probably creating some degenerate geometry there. Probably it's ok for stuff like rendering though."

I did leave a small space on the top and right side of the flat plane and it seemed to work OK but I could see how it could cause problems with the top/bottom of the target mapped sphere.

This is a dome friends and I made before the days of 3D.;)

PS. - we didn't kill the moose, they were there when we got there.

From a few simple shapes & different warps...

Nice examples. :-)

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

Thanks Rich, quick contour and occlusion render from Modo.

Design!

Cool look with the edge contours included!

- Michael

Thanks Guys! Yes, I like the illustrated look of contours. :)

Last test with this one, example of using flow on the results of a flow....

Cool PDF 3D!
Is that a theater?

Thanks Pilou!

No just a random set of shapes.

Flow to a Toroidal Knot using bemfarmers' excellent script. Thanks bemfarmer!




Rendered in Modo:

Cool pattern! Just imagine trying to model that one directly in place in 3D...

- Michael

Cool image!
Like Topmod Model! http://code.google.com/p/topmod/

It's a Moi script? have you the link?

Hi Pilou - Bemfarmer's toroidal knot plug-in here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4430.1

- Michael