Kazerina the kiwi was lost in Australia when she took this pic. She titled it 'Take Five'.

This is the result of my first major geometric modeling project.

[duration approx 9-10 weeks]

Geometric Modeling, or Vector Graphics, is a computer assisted form of drawing by which you plot points (2D), and assign lines between them to create surfaces which you can assign a colour. "Raster" is the type of graphics you see normally, which consists of a bunch of pixels. The big deal about GM is that you can resize it in any way and it stays perfectly clear, because the colour fill and lines aren't created until render time. That is, they don't get squished when you resize them. Vectors print like a dream.

So, I just loved Kaz's photo and one day I was doodling and this happened.

Then I thought, hey, I'll give that Vector stuff a try. This was the first step. I added layers of Raster in the back, just playing around. When I had learned enough, I started over.

Note the Raster sky. :G

Filling in details... Somewhere around this step, I realized that I could select a colour from the original image and copy the hex code into the Vector object. It made everything look better, I'm certain.

Determined to get away from Raster completely, I did what I could with the sky.

Thirteen pieces make up this machine. The last frame is the original, for comparison.

Here's the interface I used, PSPv6. You can see how the dots looked in edit mode. ...that mass of dots was a rectangle before I got hold of it! :G You can also see on the right pallet where I was able to group my objects together. It shows the shed to be made of 27 rectangles... By the time I was finished, the whole image was over a thousand objects.

Those funny clouds took me forever to make. At the time I made this, I didn't know how to bend lines or that there was even a way to draw freehand while it added points at intervals. rar. I was adding a rectangle, then adding points to it and reshaping it to whatever I needed. But this is how I learn.

A little more on the right and more detail on the sign itself. I finally added the bottom bolt, and realized that I should have made it at the same time as the top.

Little details in the hills.

More groundwork to fill the empty.

Then I went crazy and tackled the pile of gravel. I'd been holding that for the last step.

[coming soon in 3D]