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My first attempt at CSG. Up to now, I'd just downloaded other people's
models and put them in animations. I decided to render my den. I has
spent nine months
renovating my den (usually during my son's nap time on weekends); it
took me about 160 hours to model it. I spent several days with measuring tape in hand trying to create an accurate virtual model of my den. Still a few bugs hanging around, but I'm largely satisfied with this project. |
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| The empty bookshelf in the
bottom right corner was the first CSG object I created. After I
rendered it, I realized it that CSG wasn't really difficult at all. The two prints behind the door are Terragen images which are visible in my Landscapes Gallery. |
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panel mouldings were a real pain because of the mitre cuts. Ordinarily,
mitred corners don't need to be shown, but the direction of the wood
grain makes a 90 degree turn at the corner. I wrote my first macro to
create the rectangular part of each segment and then add on two
triangular parts at each end. Another macro allowed me to create a
rectangular panel of any size. |
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| The storage clock was somewhat
tricky to model. Its crown moulding had both concave and convex curves,
requiring a complex set of unions and differences. |
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| The books are a bunch of
randomly sized boxes. I started with random colours as well, but there
were too many pastels to look realistic. Looking at the real books, I
noticed that the colours were not random. About one fifth of books were
white or off-white. The remaining books were largely greyish (ie., not
very saturated in colour). My collection of books also tended to have a
bias towards reddish boods (as opposed to greenish or bluish). |
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| Close up of some of the desk
objects. The pens were easy to model. The lamp was less so. I'm still
not happy with the printer (an HP 932c) because it looks a little too
boxy. I also struggled with the speakers. After a couple of hours, I
thought "good enough, let's move on." |
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| An interactive 360 degree panorama. |
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| The real den (somewhat messier than the virtual one) There's also a Lexmark X75 printer that I never modelled. |
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| If you look closely, you can see on the whiteboard a diagram for a high voltage tower that I used in my "Freeway" series. |
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| The messy bookshelf. I never ended up rendering the keyboard, TV, or CD player. |
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