Schmiegel at DeviantArt clued me on to this cool program. Just wanted to share the result here too. It exports stl files for those into 3D, but I am not so had no choice but do do screencapture grabs and additional tlc in GIMP.

Generated by Sculpture Generator 1 by Carlo H. Séquin, UC Berkeley (and some additional tlc using GIMP).


Click here for the Flickr (and additional details): http://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@N05/5396757177/in/photostream/

Why not another example. I used various blends of a coral texture that I recently released at Deviant (generated this texture artificicially via filters believe it or not; not all my textures are created this way, so wanted to say that).

lylejk,

Did you notice that the generator program will export an .stl file? That file can be imported into Blender.

I know Bob, but I don't know how to 3D so fake it in GIMP. Maybe folk here are more adept at using 3D apps though. Pretty cool program for creating various minimal surfaces. Love math as art.

I love the opening statement in the link you put up Lyle.



Try that one on some of your friends. You'd definitely sound y.


Click this link to see a 3D one. You have to look at it slightly cross-eyed until the two images converge into one. Don't understand why people save multicolored, blended images as gif files. Would have been much better as png or jpg files.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/SCULPTS/Fb5s8st.gif

lyle,

No prob, I have ever only experimented with Blender myself; I know there are others here that are more into it, and that comment was just to give a heads-up.

Did you download the whole zip file? I'm pretty sure a person could expand the textures just by adding new ones to the images subdirectory. There seems to be three formats of textures: .gif, .ppm and .rgb. Gimp can open the and save .rgb, it's listed under Silicon Graphics Iris Image

wow ...it is so clear!

at least here in EUReKA

Well maybe in the rest of the world not everybody know exactly what is a toroidal warping of a truncated Scherk minimal surface , and the also part about the rings of saddle surfaces may sound a bit confusing


, but obviously after a few years of study at the MIT that should become evident

PS i love the coral thingy and also the first image is quite cool

Cool 3D view O, and thanks for the comments PC (hope you internet will get better soon; miss seeing your stuff). I did try do do just that Bob, but it didn't pick the textures I wanted. Probably could try nameing a targeted texture the same as one already in the directory to see if it will then use the new texture, but that's sort of a pain.

In the /bin directory is a file named generator.tcl; it looks like it might be a Gtk+ file??? It has listings for the textures, backgrounds, etc. In a little while I'm going to tinker with it.

In the meantime, here's a preview of NASA's latest telescope design, after the budget cuts...

Looks good Bob; might have to look at that file (I have no ideal how to tcl, but it does make me laugh; )

Just continuing to have fun with this one. Created a seamless texture and used it to create this contraption. Click link below for texture and how it was created.

http://lylejk.deviantart.com/#/d38bg40

I'm with you - I know what it stands for, but I dunno if it's "tickle" or "tinkle."

Edit: I need to correct myself. TCL is not Gtk+. (D'oh!) It's Tool Coommand Language. More info here if anyone is interested.

Here's my first one! The background and the shadow were added in Gimp.

Looks good PM. At the website, there is a guy who used the stl files to create carved wooden sculptures using this program. How cool is that. I'm really a big fan of minimal surfaces (remember my gyroid binge; lol). Cool now that I can pursue a few additional variations to this form of mathematical art. Just wish the professor would have allowed for a bitmap export. I emailed him, but haven't gotten a response (don't expect that I will either; I know how it is) concerning this since I don't really plan on learning 3D any time soon (mainly since I'm lazy; lol).

What the hay; a couple more. Embedded IPTC info in the attached jpeg for the Chrome. Used three bar sin gradient mapping/blending, false reflections, and sparkles for the chrome effect. The other one is more use of the Wickernet tile.

This can be a fun little toy to play with!

I agree it is quite fun to mess with.Yet another simple little program to make you happy.
Thanks for sharing it. =)

I figured out how to add my own textures to the generator.tcl file. Here's a sculpture with that always-wonderful molten gold pattern. If anyone is interested in tweaking their own copy of the file, let me know.

Now that looks cool Bob. Again, if it's just a text file, I bet I can figure it out, but if it is a little complicated (i.e., require coding), I might have to PM you for some instructions. Thanks again for pointing me to the right file to tweak with.

Yes it's just a plain-text file.
The easy way is to create your textures and rename them to existing texture names (remember to rename the existing textures first if you want to keep them). Remember to make two versions of the textures; the program uses .gif images to display on the selector buttons, but it wants the .ppm images for the actual textures.

I did it the hard way from the get-go and actually modded the file and added three new textures. It took a bit of work, but I got it figured out.