Siting Illustration

Here is a siting illustration where I have contrived a background that works with afternoon shadows.

This perhaps reveals how I've done it, importing a photograph onto a vertical plane that simulates the angle of the mountains. I did have to make the opacity of it 69% so that the photo would not cast a shadow onto the drawing.

Transparencies

Working with the previous set of intersections I was interested in trying to see how few panels I might need, or some clearer illustration of how to get the solid that I want developing from them. I attempted to see them through the use of transparency and opaqueness.

The first attempt didn't help much, although it made for some interesting images.

This one seems more "business-like".

Finally, I just decide to look through them as if they were some kind of microcopic cellular organism.

The planar configuration are red, yellow, and blue for each axis. It still doesn't illlustrate very well.

Lighting and Sizing Discoveries

In drawing smaller models I am discovering certain qualities in texture in presentation and lighting work better. I have also decided to present a drawing of a sculpture I want to construct that was once formerly trimmed into a neat geometric cube into something with all the trimmings still left on.

This object, once presented as something perhaps 10' square I now present as someting two inches square. The notion of it's true size is illusory here.

Today's Ideas

I've also looked into what might be below the surface of a monumental work I envisioned, one of the first I drew when I was teaching myself how to sketch on Google Sketchup.

My First Animation

I made this using the animation feature on Google Sketchup.

Pinecone

Another try at the pineapple or pinecone shape. I increased the segments from 12 to 24 on the vertical axis. Worked on making the basic shape more elliptical first.

Prolate Spheroids - Egg Shapes

After developing another shape I wanted from a simple egg-shape formula I nested a smaller version inside another and created pyramid studs across the surface by connecting intersection from one to the other.

Armature Development ~ One Gallon Container

After some thought I have decided to first develop an egg-shaped container that will conveniently hold one gallon of paint. I had to look up a volume formula for an ellipsoid and convert some measurements back and forth. I might go back to metric and refine things a bit. At this point I'm merely happy to develop an armature out of styro-foam that can be found in a home improvement store at 1/2" thick.
Illustrations follow which approximate the measurements I need:



The basic armature.



The short side.



The long side.

Hatching Contours

Sphere with Portal

32' Double Helix