3D

[Bernard Bunner]

Discussion about 3D suggestions, painting, printing, animation, other software ideas or if you have some new features ideas for the next release...

[Bernard Bunner]

If you are searching about somebody who can print your 3D files, here is a new service, there is certainly one near you live....

If you are near Strasbourg, France, you can direct come to me :-)

 

[Synthetik]

There are also a lot of local Makers Meetup Groups throughout the world. It's highly likely that someone who would be attending a local Maker Meetup group in your area would own a 3D printer. There are also specific 3D Printing Meetup Groups. So then everyone at the meetup group would be into 3D printing, and probably 9owns one, or wants to.

[Bernard Bunner]

3D Printed Fine Art Reproduction

here

[Bernard Bunner]

3D paintings exposition :

Full article here

[Bernard Bunner]

If you are interested in creating human 3D man/woman, here's a free interesting software

MakeHuman

You can export your creations, and visualize them withMeshlab before 3D printing, also a free one

example : with MakeHuman :

MeshLab :

Then you can export it to the printer software…or Studio Artist and vectorize it like this one

[Bernard Bunner]

Extrusion or……Intrusion :-)

[Bernard Bunner]

In 3D soft you can modulate the depth, not just a hole, but different stages with other contents, just like sculpting

[Bernard Bunner]

here on extrusion example, you see it better

[Bernard Bunner]

Here I vectorized the 3D extruded picture

[Synthetik]

Another useful image processing effect for adding a sense of depth to a flat image is the Gradient Lighting ip op. Here's an example of how i configured it's controls for this discussion.

I started with the vectorizer outline image i used in my previous example, shown below.

After running the Gradient Lighting ip op as configured above, i get this effected image.

Note that it now appears to have some depth, and to be lighted with specular highlights. There are a lot of different ways you can work with gradient lighting effects to add the perception of depth to your images. For example, the image below uses the same settings, but i used the masking trick i discussed in my previous example.

The effect was masked so that the processing only occurred within the black outline shapes, which tightens up the borders of the shapes while still giving them the appearance of being lighted and having depth.

You could also experiment with using Min or Max compositing in addition to masking.

Or by working with multiple applications of the Gradient Lighting effect using different settings to build up a more elaborate lighting effect. I often do this using different Scale settings to build up multi-octave lighting effects. Lowering the Scale can increase the sense of depth. So i will run the effect several times using different Scale settings that double in size with each application. And with a fairly low Mix setting for each processing pass so that the effect is more subtle.