From Art Blog:
Flags and Bubbles
Sunday, March 7 2010 UTC
Another Structure with curved edges, figures, and flags
While the paint dried on several paintings today I spent some more time playing with structures in SketchUp for future paintings. Here are a few tricks used in this one:
- Soap bubble plugin for the hanging fabrics
- Using the rotate tool with option held down to clone, then typing, e.g., “15x” to create the prayer flags along an arc
- Making curved flat shapes and then extruding them using the Follow Me tool for curved surfaces
- Extruding shapes and “intersect with model” to cut doorways through curved faces
- View->Hidden Geometry and using the Move tool on vertices to carefully suture pieces together when an imperfect match between adjacent surfaces occurs.
As the stuff becomes second nature, you find yourself limited by imagination more than by the tool… the sign of a good tool.