On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:00:47 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>> 
>> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:25:12 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >Ah ! The R2D2 height field. That was when I was first experimenting with
>> >non-standard uses of the HF object. I have progressed considerably with
>> >that concept since then.
>> 
>> I give up Ken, it's keeping me awake during the day. Please reveal all!
>> David
>
>Ok, I have taken my clothes off. Now what ?
>
Ugh! that's horrible. Worse than R2D2.  Put them back on again immediately.

>The R2D2 height field was created using a little chicanery. I had a mesh
>object of R2D2 that I downloaded somewhere and was looking at it in a
>modelling program. I got a sudden inspiration looking at it's wire frame
>to do a screen capture of the wire frame image and made a HF object out
>of it. It pretty simple really. I made sure that the background was
>black and the lines were white. The resulting image was then used for
>the HF object and I used the water level modifier to clip the back off
>of the object. The rest was scaling and rotating into position.
>
Awe. I'm disappointed.  I had you doing some wonderful things with Isosurfaces that
left
just the edges.

Seriously though, couldn't you do a bit more with it, give it a bit of depth.  This
could
be moving on from cubism - frameism? or, perhaps, tylerism. You've been innovating
quite a
bit recently, perhaps you are on a roll.  Go for it!

David

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