#2D shaper
Ok. Let me tell.
It is my first 3D job. Before I was working only as advertising photographer.
Than I started with digital Imaging. But I think it is the best in the future
to be able to create images in all the ways.
I the moment I work for a scientist who was lokking for matchings between
things and living things about the last 15 years.
For him I worked on the compi with my Picture Publisher together with a docter
of geographie about 600- 700 houres to reconstruct the whole world of 200 mio.
years ago.
Now I have to build this new born continents in 3D to confirm it's to a sphere,
to be able to move this continents on the globe. That means I'm building
"Pangea".
When I finished this part we will reconstruct the movements of the continents
during mio.s of years.
But to get a propper outline of the curved pathes (.ai path) is quite
difficult. The problems I have had with using the unmodified pathes ……. you
know. I had to line up a lot of phantastic shaped segments. It's a pitty. I
had to reduce my verticies for each continent from about 1600 down to 826. OH
that's bad, and I had to reduce all wonderful steps to one.
The boolean operations I need to get a better grid of faces. That means the
faces that 3DS creats run from the one side of the shape to the other. This
kind of faces I cannot tessellate without getting slivers. I can't confirm
that kind of very long faces to a sphere. They do not curve.
Ok. With boolean operation I stamped the shape of the continent into a plane
objekt created in Imagine. Imagine creates meshes with right angled faces. So I
have a perfect mesh surface. The "confirm to sphere" command I also proceed in
Imagine, it seems to be the one program that is able to bend an objekt around a
sphere with having numerical control.
I could not find this operation in 3DS/4. But may be there is a solution I do
not know.
Imagine has problems with large objekts. It can't adress more then 64 MB RAM.
Ok. I will let you know what's happening from time to time if you are
interested.
Sorry about my english!!!!
Have a nice time , Anselm