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John M. Dlugosz wrote:
>
> I'm working on a POV model inspired by Escher's <I>Another World</I>. This
> is intended to become
> a large print to hang over my fireplace.
>
> So far, I have a roughed out model of the central structure. This was
> rather confusing to do, to put it
> mildly. It's all done directly with POV source and a little doodling on the
> side. To get a closer look at
> joints and other details, I use close-up cameras. The confusion stems from
> the lack of a definite "up" and the self-similarness throughout, so it's
> easy to get lost.
>
> Any comments and advice appreciated. The work can be seen at
> <http://www.dlugosz.com/POV/another_world.html>
>
> A few questions in general:
>
> * anyone know where I can get a good high-quality print made in a poster
> size?
>
> * where can I get data for a human figure? I'd like to incorporate a marble
> statue, and that's a bit beyond my modeling abilities!
>
> --John
I envy your progress to date. I started a Escher duplicate once and backed
out after a few hours of work. The perspective and number of csg operations
I was going to have to do was overwhelming and I have it resting somewhere
waiting for the proper time and motivation.
As far a print work goes I can only recommend you read the printing faq
by Coridon Henshaw. I have a link to it posted in the
povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions group on this server.
I saw a graphics printing ad posted this week in one of the comp.graphics
groups that If I run into it again I will forward your way. Might have
been in c.g.r.r., c.g.r, c.g.r.misc, or c.g.misc but I'm not sure.
For human models if someone here who has Poser figures available that would
be your best bet. Otherwise I have a couple of links you can try for royalty
free 3d models. I haven't updated these for a while so some may be gone but
most should still be around. There are some good models available if you dig
enough.
3DCafe
http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/meshes.asp
3D Expresso - Object links - This has a link to many sites with 3d models
http://3dexpresso.simplenet.com/objects.htm
3dSpot - the New Graphics bbs web site Several cd's full of objects
http://www.3Dspot.com/
Amazing 3d Graphics Inc. Free 3D models
http://www.amazing3d.com/free/free.html
The 3DS repository
http://sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~pannozzo/3dsobjects.html
Avalon - the ever popular source of things 3D
http://avalon1.viewpoint.com/cgi-bin/setmirror.pl?site=vp
ftp://avalon.viewpoint.com/avalon/
and
Viewpoint Data Labs 3D models
http://www.viewpoint.com/datashop/premier/iconBar.html
Electric Image - 3D Resources
http://www.eiresources.com/resources/index.html
The Ion Group
http://www.iongroup.net/b3dz.html
Mesh Mart - I think this one is gone but if it's still around it is a good one.
http://www.meshmart.org/obcat/obcatdx.htm
VCAN - the Virtual Characters Archives Network
http://www.mediom.qc.ca/creator-studio/3d-depot/main.html
Good luck.
--
Ken Tyler
mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
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