One is Scherk-Collins Sculpture generator which generates meshes from a mathematical formular, based on a set of sliders you can adjust. It's somewhat limited, but still cool. It exports to .stl and that is not so cool, because it takes ages to import into 3dsMAX.
Another (and my favourite) is the Topological Mesh Modeling app. (TopMod) of Ergun Akleman. It can load any .obj mesh, and you can work with that using a set of different tools. One of the coolest functions I've used (so far) is the crust feature. Shelling made easy.
Anyways - I've made a few sculptures, based on those two pieces of software. Still only just getting my hands dirty.
Steel Rose (made with SculptGen). Actually only the top part was done in SculptGen, but i thought it looked a bit like a rose, so I decided to work a bit with that thought.
A "knot" of some kind. Done in TopMod.
Same knot, with a different shader.
Steel vines. Done in SculptGen.
- all images rendered in MAX with Vray.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to let you know that there is a brand new version of TopMod available for Windows and OS/X that makes creating sculptures a lot easier. Try it out here:
http://www.ends170.com/topmod
and check out the video tutorials here:
http://topmod.blip.tv
Let me know what you think. I'm redoing the interface and adding new functions for my graduate thesis research, and I'm always looking for new ideas and critiques. Thanks for your help,
Dave Morris
Cheers Dave.
ReplyDeleteI did read about it on MAXforums. Thanks for the heads up though ;)