Sorry for the long absence guys. Guy? Random passers-by? Anyrate though, just finished up another solid model. I wanted to post this sooner, but it took a couple of days to decide what I wanted to do, and another couple after that just do do this thing. I won't say it's perfect, but I think it's fairly decent. Any opinions either way? Or preferences for the two versions posted?

As the software I favor is more geared to industrial use, I don't have a lot of textures to choose from if I want color on these guys. But yknow, I thought that particular carpet pattern looked pretty good. But, in case there's some disagreement on that front, the vanilla version is immediately below. Enjoy! ^_^

Hey everyone, look at what I just brought back from my old school today. No, I didn't swipe the thing. Just that one of my old teachers saw the original file and was thrilled about the idea of printing it off on the 3D printer. Darned nifty toy, that.

Sadly, as you can see, the base of the tree broke off when the support material was being removed. If I were to print off another copy, I'd make changes to help keep that from happening. I could have oriented it differently in the printer, or added a fillet to the branch/trunk junction. Any number of things I could have done differently. Hindsight's always 20/20 I suppose. Still, is nifty, right?

Ok, I get it. The formatting on that previous post wasn't so hot. I'll keep that in mind with the next picture I include, and place the image more apporpriately. Anyrate though, it's my experience a lot of people have no clue what that image is meant to be, and not simply because it's not a good image. Granted, I believe I could do a better job, but it's what I had handy at the time.

The short answer: That's a klein bottle. Named after the guy who came up with the rather bizarre idea. It's a container that has no volume. It has one side, and no edge.
For a much longer, and entirely more accurate answer, I'd suggest you look wander over to http://www.kleinbottle.com/whats_a_klein_bottle.htm

You can also order em there. Sort of. Strictly speaking, you can't make one in three dimensions, but it's as close as you can get, really. If anyone's interested, I have one myself. Not from them though. Got one of my old teachers, well not an old teacher at the time, but at anyrate, my old school has a 3D printer, which we printed out a copy of my klein bottle on. If there's interest, I'll take a photo of the thing and display it proudly. (even though the problems with it are even more glaring on the physical model.)

Enjoy, people!

Alrighty, while I'm fairly certain that nobody's been waiting, I'm sorry for the delay all the same. The software I was snagging was somewhat less cooperative than I'd have liked.

Anyrate though, here's a modest example of my work. I know it's not much, and it could have been done better. But, eh. It was just something I threw together one time to see if I even could.

Any chance anybody has any thoughts about this? Or requests for future showings? I can't promise perfection, but if you ask for it, I'll see what I can do. And I'll even display the ending failure. ^_^;;

Greetings

Welcome all, to my modest little corner of this marvelous series of tubes. I can't say for certain what I'll be doing with this space yet, but for now my intent is to use it as a gallery to display my works, such as they are. Primarily my canvas is Autodesk Inventor, so expect to see a lot of that. I don't have the patience or talent to do stuff by hand. ^_^;;

I don't have anything I can display to the public just yet. I have some images handy, but I'm currently downloading paint.net so's I can watermark them properly before displaying. But do keep watch, I expect to have something in a viewable position pretty quick.