As simple as...

[Gary David Bouton]

I was looking a little last week for a simple teapot model. I figure I'm pretty good at surfing, and the only free teapot model was awful; the DXF file was way too low in poly count.

So I built my own (wow. what a first, Gare ), and I'm posting it for free download.

Here's what it looks like.

My Best,
Gare

Gary David Bouton
Gary@GaryDavidBouton.com
Free education! The Writings Web site
and the updated GaryWorld Gallery is pretty okay, too.

[Gary David Bouton]

I like your teapot much better than my redition of a classic.

But...I knew full well that I was designing a "classic" teapot whose body was too thick to be practical. But sometimes art is not real, right? You know, in all the teapot images I've seen, I've not seen one whose lid is off showing the thickness and insides. So as a "pioneer" I get an arrow in the back? Actually, if you inspect the DXF file, only the top lip is that heavy...it just did not look right from the angle at which I rendered it with a smaller lip.


Unecessarily defensively,
Gare

[Gary David Bouton]

I was looking a little last week for a simple teapot model. I figure I'm pretty good at surfing, and the only free teapot model was awful; the DXF file was way too low in poly count.

So I built my own (wow. what a first, Gare ), and I'm posting it for free download.

Here's what it looks like.

My Best,
Gare

Gary David Bouton
Gary@GaryDavidBouton.com
Free education! The Writings Web site
and the updated GaryWorld Gallery is pretty okay, too.

[Gary David Bouton]

1.)I went back and changed the colours so they would be in range for autoCAD.
2.)I did this in a 1995 application called MacroMedia Extreme 3D.

3.)Thanks, Gidge...By the by, the reflection is simply a blurry grayscale photo.
4.)Hi, Earl..10, 764 faces, point cloud=4932. I used adaptive smoothing, That's probably why the count is so lo.


Enjoy,
Gare

[Gary David Bouton]

My 7 year old nephew LOVES 3D, so I'm getting him started with a simple program; Adobe Dimensions. He obviously (or perhaps not so obviously! ) needs some help, so Uncle Gary is doing to finer details in XARA for him.

Actually, this is getting to be quite fun....a challenge, 'cause the program has about as many features as CorelDRAW's extrude palette

I dowloaded a few snaps from Gibson.com, traced them off, and what you're seeing here is object-oriented output--Illustrator format...you can scale the rendering with no data loss.


...but then again, there's not nearly as much data in this sketch as with a rendered model.


Gare

[gidgit]

Hey, this is a very nice tea pot there Gare... and of course your texturing is right up to snuff as per usual... [thumbs up]

btw, what app did you use to build this little beauty?

[Gary David Bouton]

Gidge,
Totally O/T here, but an Internet friend of mine from Belgium owns a guitar given to him by Richie Blackmore, the guy whose power chords begin Deep Purple's "Smoke On the Water".

It's a Fender Strat, and no, I have no intention of modeling one next


My Best,
Gare

[Earl]

Hey Gary,

Nice teapot... just out of curiosity, what's the polygon count?

[David Bethel]

Gare,

Here's you teapot less the lid modified a tiny bit in AutoCAD. -David

DXFIN still didn't like the format but I found a way to trick it.

[Mark (theKeeper)]

Hey nice job Gare.
Looks great.