Tilt Shift

Rugs

MakeHuman Obj

So....Made a MakeHuman and exported it as OBJ. When I brought it into Blender it was tiny. (16.6" or so). Scaled it up 4.15 to make it apprx 5'9.
Not sure if any changes to Blender made my previous post incorrect.
http://kevinbanksart.blogspot.com/2015/09/various-thingsmakehumanalphasblenderson.html

http://www.blenderguru.com/articles/7-ways-get-rid-fireflies/

www.smcars.net

Model T

Model T

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/119926.html 

Above is a great thread with lots of photos and serial numbers etc.....

 

http://mtfci2002.readyhosting.com/manuals/Model_T_Service_Manual/mtsm.html 



"I have 2 drawings of the front axle. One is dated 12/26/1916 while the other is dated in November of 1919.

The 1916 version says spindles are 51-15/16" apart with tolerance of +/- 1/8" while the perch holes are 36-1/2" with tolerance of +/- 1/8"

The 1919 version says spindles are 51-25/32" apart with tolerance of +/- 1/8" while the perch holes are 36-11/32" with tolerance of +/- 1/8"

I have no idea if it was different on the earlier axle or the later versions either."


http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/19908.html

This post discusses the differences in the Murray Fahnstock drawing and actual measurements taken by one of the posters.....

"6. I did a spot check of the touring body drawing on page 150 of Fahnestock's "The Model T FordOwner" which Tom posted above. I compared the drawing against what I believe is a mostly original 1918 Beaudett touring (USA produced). Only one measurement was the same -- the passenger front door opening was exactly 17 inches as his drawing indicated. The other 3 or 4 places I could easily check were all slightly larger than his dimensions with the exception of the distance between the body irons on the side which were 1/8 inch LESS distance than his drawing.

That may be caused just from the differences in the bodies (he even has 1/4 inch difference shown on his touring body at the rear width between the different bodies (i.e. that 25 7/16 or 25 9/16 measurement would be multiplied by 2 for the total width of 50 14/16 or 51 2/16 inches wide at the back of the touring). The differences in my body could also be due to wear and tear over the years, sagging frame, kids playing in/on the car (hey I was one of those kids a long time ago) etc.

I could also have misread or mismeasured the car or multiplied the 1/2 numbers from centerline that he shows (never do math in public). But on my touring at the body irons the rear top bow rotates he shows it 25 5/8 inches x 2 = 50 10/8 or 51 1/4 inches. Mine measures 51 13/16 or mine was 9/16 or 3/4 inch wider than shown.

The next rear measurement across the body from rear door opening to rear door opening he shows 23 5/8 times 2 for 46 10/8 or 47 1/4. Mine is 48 wide (measured at the top -- it gets smaller as you go lower on the body) so mine is 3/4 inch wider there also.

The next width location I measured from the inside of one front side body iron to the inside of the other front body iron. He shows 25 5/8 times 2 for 50 10/8 or 51 1/4. Mine measured 51 7/8 or 5/8 inch wider (oh -- and until just now, I never really noticed that I could push in on some of those parts and make the distances smaller by about 1/16 to 1/8 inch depending on how hard you push.

My rear door opening is 3/16 inch more than he shows."


 

Victor Hugo Jackson House

Model T

http://www.shorpy.com/

Lots of info....
http://www.fordwood.com/which_t_do_you_have.htm


http://largescalemodelers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=20

http://www.macsautoparts.com/store/model-t-specs/

http://public.fotki.com/TheNewcityFamily/model-car-projects-/1908-to-1927-ford-m/page6.html

Front Axle Specifications

Yoke opening for spindle body 4.748"-4.752"
Bore for spindle bolt (kingpin) 5.045"-.505"
for first 5/16" of lower yoke, then 1/2" x 20 SAE threads to end
Spindle body length 4.748"-4.750" (end size)
Width of yoke (upper) .685"-.690"
Width of yoke (lower) .685"-.690"

Wheelbase was 100 inches (254 cm); while standard tread width was 56 in (142 cm),

Tires were pneumatic clincher type, 30 in (76 cm) in diameter, 3.5 in (8.9 cm) wide in the rear, 3 in (7.5 cm) wide in the front.


This link has some nice pictures and specs

http://www.modelt.ca/specifications-fs.html

Model A stuff
http://www.motormayhem.net/model-a-ford-reference-page/body-specifications/

Antique wheel manufacturer

http://www.calimerswheelshop.com/Body_Frame.html

American Vintage Rims.....nice specs and photos

http://www.americanvintagerims.com/

30" x 3"30" x 3.5" 28" x 3" *30" x 3.5"	(24") (23") (22") 4 Lug.	$135.00 $135.00 $135.00 $225.00

Fortin Ironworks DWG

http://www.fortinironworks.com/dwg/directory.php

http://chestofbooks.com/crafts/metal/Metal-Pattern/index.html#.ViFRaCtXnfs

The Victor Hugo Jackson House 240 Lenox

"This turn of the century Harlem home is a magnificent example of a Beaux- Arts red brick and limestone mansion, built in 1899 by architect John E. Terhune. This townhouse epitomizes Harlem living at it's best. This 13 room corner home has over 5755 square foot of living space, 5 floors, plus a full height basement. Additionally, it has 7 fireplaces (one wood and one gas) with original mantels, 12.5 ft ceilings, original oak floors, a classic mansard roof, intricately carved stairway balustrade, and tons of original details. 9 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, a backyard and ample living and dining areas are all features making this a very special home."

John E. Terhune's No. 246 Fifth Avenue

28-30 West 123rd Street

built 1884-85  

http://ww.nyc-architecture.com/HAR/HAR042.htm 

This entire blog is just incredible.

http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-victor-hugo-jackson-house-no-240.html

http://fabricated.io/projects/manhattan-stories/the-victor-hugo-jackson-house


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXE2110rdnw

http://chestofbooks.com/architecture/Building-Construction-V2/index.html#.VhkzkitXnfs

Brownstone

Window dwg and dxf files galore

Pella

http://professional.pella.com/adm

Milgard

http://www.milgard.com/professionals/technical-resources

http://www.milgard.com/sites/default/files/series-detail/files/cad/3275-01-v_double-hung_woodclad.pdf

Andersen is the largest manufacturer of windows in North America.
They have a free program to design windows and export the files!

http://www.andersenwindows.com

http://www.windsorone.com/cad_molding_type.php

http://seek.autodesk.com/category/Doors?source=QuickLinks&resetft=true&locale=en-us

Jeld-Wen

http://www.jeld-wen.com/

Blam and Blender

Blam addon for Blender.

http://stuffmatic.com/blam-blender-camera-calibration-toolkit/

Pretty amazing results.
From a still from Google Earth streetview, made this dxf file.

Various Things...MakeHuman.....Alphas....Blender.....Sony Movie Studio

So this morning I imported a MHX model into a Blender scene. I had not applied a scale in MakeHuman (not that I know of).
Exported the MHX from Blender as DXF and measured it in Draftsight.
It was apx 13'8 5/8.
The same model in MakeHuman was 65.33".
So scale to 0.3968 to make it work in Blender.

Carnegie BVH MoCap Files

https://www.sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/cmu-bvh-conversion

Description of the files.....

https://www.sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/cmu-bvh-conversion/bvh-conversion-release---motions-list

After some problems...watched this tutorial, that has absolutely nothing to do with the above.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1923&v=eThtuXZZ7M0

This one had all to do with the above.....

http://wn.com/blender,_make_human,_motion_capture


https://thomasmakehuman.wordpress.com/mhx2-documentation/preparation/

Blender Camera Tracking

here's how to constrain the camera to an object.....it makes the rendering a lot easier......go into object mode--- select the cam, hold shift and selct the object, press control t, select old track, select your camera(only your camera) then press alt r and clear rotation.......now when you move ur cam, it'll stay focused on the object, you can still rotate the cam for a better framing.....so there it is ;D

http://stuffmatic.com/blam-blender-camera-calibration-toolkit/

https://github.com/stuffmatic/blam/wiki/User's-guide

https://vimeo.com/35421849

Some Models from the Last Month

Second Empire

http://www.davidleventi.com/portfolio/new-york/4/

http://picturesqueitalianatearchitecture.blogspot.com/

http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Notice/Vignole1583.asp?param=en

Manufacturers of stuff....
www.balmer.com

Great photos of Italianate cornices....Some good references.....

http://blog.classicist.org/?p=632

http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/28100

http://imgarcade.com/1/cornice-architecture/


A Bing search for "Drawings of Cornices"
"Column Capital Architecture"
"319 Designs for Cornices"

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/362576

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=did;cc=did;rgn=main;view=text;idno=did2222.0001.607

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Work-in-Practice-Passivhaus-Renovation-Brooklyn-NY/5458503

http://www.architecturalmolded.com/index.html

There is no standard New York City lot size. However, in much of the older parts of the city, i.e., those originally built up in the 19th, especially the later 19th century, building lots tended to have widths in the range of 15-25 feet and depths of about 100 feet (half the short dimension of a rectangular block). The average improved (built-on) lot was about 20 feet wide; unimproved lots were frequently multiples of 25 feet in width, and then subdivided by the developer. This be seen clearly in the case of Manhattan, where a 100 foot wide unimproved lot might end up as six improved lots each 16 feet 8 inches wide. Today the average building lot on the island of Manhattan is about 60 feet wide though the range of widths is even greater than it was in the 19th century. There were nominally some 141,000 25 x 100 foot lots on the island of Manhattan not long after the Civil War; the peak number actually surveyed for sale and improvement was perhaps 125,000 around 1890; the number actually built on closer 105,000 - but the statistics are complicated by the fact that even as new lots were being added to stock at the northern end of the island, older ones were being combined downtown, thus reducing the total number. Today there are some 42,600 building lots on the island of Manhattan, and some 809,000 in the city as a whole. (Note that the number of buildings lots is less than the total number of all blocks, which includes open spaces, vacant land, parking faciities, etc.) 

Bricks and Brownstones by Charles Lockwood.


http://mass.historicbuildingsct.com/?cat=56


http://images.lib.ncsu.edu/luna/servlet/view/all/what/Elevations/Second%20Empire?os=0&pgs=50 

Odell House Concord NC

http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?f[work_facet][]=Odell%2C+John+Milton+House+%28Concord%2C+N.C.%29

Great blogspot.

http://victorianhouseplans.blogspot.com/search/label/victorian%20houseplan

 Paramount Studio's link to their backlots.....

http://www.paramountstudios.com/stages-backlots/backlots/brownstone-set.html

Building Survey.....used this one before...Has the Carey Building....

http://www.buildingsurvey.net/drawings.html

3d stuff

Andrew Price's video on Blender Compositing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWcCkQ3943Y

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http://www.cgmasters.net/free-tutorials/5-little-known-tricks-in-blenders-outliner/

https://renderedsmoothie.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/cycles-skies/

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https://creativemarket.com/
http://3d.about.com/od/Career-Resources/tp/Top-Ten-Places-To-Sell-3D-Models-Online.htm

Just use a clay material for your car. Settings: The default material, spec hardness to 8.
And for lighting: Delete all lights and only use Ambient Occlusion with settings: Factor: 1.000 Blend Mode: Add
That's how I make clay renders.


http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/prepping_blender_files_for_3d_printing

http://3dprintingninja.blogspot.com/2014/12/non-manifolds-automatic-fixing-methods.html

http://autoautomobiles.narod.ru/english/volkswagen/Volkswagen-Beetle-1200-1964/

I don't think you can switch drawing units after you've set them for the file

If you are working in inches (have your dim's set to inches), draw a line at 10. This will be 10 "drawing units" and the drawing units are set to inches.

Then draw another one or copy & paste (or offset) the first line. Then scale it.

25.4 mm = 1 inch. So you need to scale it down by 1/25.4

However, you can't enter a fraction with a non-whole number denominator. Thus you need to express that ratio with a whole number denominator.

Anyone?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

The scale factor will be 5/127.

Then if you dimension it (with alternate units enabled), it will show 0.394 inches [10 mm]. Of if you're using fractional or engineering units it will show 3/8 [10].

If you start in mm and draw your first line, then you copy it (or offset) and then scale it up with a scale factor of 25.4. Then you'll have a 10 mm line and one which will dimension as 254 mm [10 in]. 

Blender volumetric lighting

Corfe Castle

http://castlexplorer.co.uk/


A late 11th century Norman castle with a circular keep built on a hill on an earlier Saxon site. It was extended in 1210 when the west and outer bailey wallls and towers and the palace, the Gloriette, were added. In the middle of the 13th century the middle and outer gatehouses were built. The castle was sold into private hands in the 16th century, but it was used during the Civil War against Parliamentary troops. After a long siege in 1646 it was severely slighted after surrendering.


A gloriette (from the 12th century French gloire meaning "little room") is a building in a garden erected on a site that is elevated with respect to the surroundings. The structural execution and shape can vary greatly, often in the form of a pavilion or tempietto, more or less open on the sides.

Blender Still Life

Miyajima Torii

Miyajima

The approach from the east by boat first encounters the 52-foot-tall (16-meter), vermilion-colored O-Torii, standing in the sea some 220 yards (200 meters) in front of the hall of worship and built on its axis. The eighth since the Heian period, it dates from 1874 to 1875. The great weight of its massive camphor-wood pillars, approximately 44 feet (13.4 meters) tall, together with the 76-foot-long (23.3-meter) hollow cross piece, filled with stones, allows the O-Torii to stand upon the seafloor without being embedded in it.

Blender

Blender 2.7+ volumetric lighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hth35zWigM

Hard time finding this video I had watched earlier this year.
The concept was escaping me.

Basically, the bounding box for the fog.......Materials> Surface> disconnect
Volume>volume scatter and set it to a low number.....

Shakespeare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_%28singer%29

Time Life Woodstock

http://timelife.com/products/the-woodstock-collection

John Coltrane So What

Read this post...... by some sax player in a forum.....


"So I'm transcribing Coltrane's solo by ear on "so what" and am dumbfounded on what he played on 3:57 to 3:58. I can work out almost everything else he played but these two seconds of this crazy lick.. blew my mind. Almost sounds like button mashing.
Just thought I'd share.
Don't tell me what he plays though. I'm trying to figure it out myself."


Almost sounds like button mashing....Oh my....

Cleveland Banks

Cleve had blue eyes. Those dark blue eyes that are light and transparent at the same time.
He was born in Toombs County Georgia September 1922,


He married Mary Pauline Benton in November 1941. Mitchell was born August 5 1942 and Carolyn was born June 14 1944.



This photo must have been taken in 1947 or 1948.

So this dream...

So in this dream I had all people in a scene were replaced by these pacman elongated things....

SINATRA

http://blendertips.com/hotkeys.html

CHERYL

CHERYL

I recorded this in one take on a PRS with a badly overdriven input.....But it was all done in one take and totally improvised.....

The Best is Yet to Come

The Best is Yet to Come


Learn how to play exaclty like Frank Sinatra.......

Ballad of Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe invented Andy Warhol in her spare time

George Jones and Merle Haggard

THINK I'LL JUST STAY HERE AND DRINK     GEORGE COVERS MERLE
http://www.metrolyrics.com/i-think-ill-just-stay-here-and-drink-lyrics-merle-haggard.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IDtvB1eGco

New Blender blog

http://blendermama.com/blender-troubleshooter-nr-1-apply-scale.html

Floor to Ceiling ratios

from some forum...
"there is no set rule . 10ft. is common but it is subject to minimum ceiling heights with very depending on your codes in the area you live . Basements and such use to be 7'10" if I remember right but a few years back it was dropped to 7'1'' .
The typical is a 9 ' interval if the ceilings are 8 ft. Leaving a 1 ft. interval for floor systems , but that is not truly accurate. If you want to get technical the typical ceiling is 8' 1 and a quarter inches . Then 2x10s are 9 and a half inches then you add 3/4 sub-floor before you start the next wall of 8'1 and a quarter inches. A big percentage of profesionals just call it 8ft plus 10 inches and call it good . The only way you get a dispute about it is when you have a height restriction and every quarter inch makes a difference in the over all height as to not pierce the building height envelope.
It gets a lot more continuous when there is a perceived view shed of a neighbor.

10 ft. is a standard depending on the type of building , ceiling heights, chase area size for ducts and stuff . It is a rule of thumb and don't reflect real live measurements of an as-built.
you take commercial space and the ceilings could easily be 12ft or even 15 foot then have a drop ceiling down to a desired height for a particular store design and if there is a second story it may only be the thickness of the floor system it self which could be just a 1/8th inches corrugated metal with 3 and one half inches of reinforced concrete then start the next floor .
I think standard single story big malls have a ceiling height of 23 ft.
I may be wrong about that . I think that is right though . It has been a while since i have done a tenant improvement in a mall . 23 ft comes to mind .
So my typical is 10 ft. when estimating initial heights. Very preliminary when trying to visualize a highest and best use for a land parcel.
That is because of peoples desire for 9 ft tall walls , which we say a lot of in the hay day before the crash . Everybody wanted 9 ft walls"

Paris 1945

Wiki says Paris 1945
Paris 1945 is a swing album featuring guitarist Django Reinhardt along with five members of Glenn Miller's Army Air Force big band. The album was recorded in Paris, France, and originally released in 1945.
On January 25, 1945, Reinhardt recorded four tunes with Bernie Privin on trumpet, Peanuts Hucko on tenor saxophone, Mel Powell on piano, Josz Schulman on bass and Ray McKinley on drums.^[2] In addition to these four tracks, the album included four tracks of Hucko playing clarinet with a trio, and several tracks of Powell on solo piano.^[3]
Miller's band members were all members of the United States Army Air Forces, and military regulations prohibited them from making commercial recordings. This led to a curious personnel listing on the original album that mentioned only Django Reinhardt by name. His accompanists were called the Jazz Club Mystery Hot Band, and the members were listed as U, V, W, X, Y and Z.^[2] Later reissues properly credited Glenn Miller's All Stars, the Ray McKinley Trio and Mel Powell.

Moseley Elementary 1968

Moseley Elementary 1968

My cousin Miranda Mosley in the front row....
.....Jimmy Reid....that means he must have failed a grade...because he was in the original class at Briarwood when I was seventh grade.....Fran Weigel....

The Weigel sisters would years later come to the Ritz Carlton and we realized who we were....
That was nice......

test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADpoSeWAK8Y

Otis Blue

Otis Blue....invented Led Zeppelin....

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967)

Otis Blue

released September 15, 1965 on Stax Records, is the third studio album by soul singer Otis Redding. The album mainly consists of cover songs by popular R&B and soul artists, and, bar one track, was recorded in a 24-hour period over July 9/10 1965 at the Stax Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Otis Blue was critically acclaimed upon release and became one of Redding's most successful albums; it reached number 6 on the UK Albums Chart, and was his first to reach the top spot of the Billboard R&B chart. Furthermore, it produced three popular singles, all charting at least in the top 50 on both the Billboard R&B and the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is considered by many critics to be Redding's first fully realized album.<sup>[1]

The tracks....</sup>

1.	"Ole Man Trouble"	Otis Redding	2:55
2.	"Respect"	Redding	2:05
3.	"Change Gonna Come"	Sam Cooke	4:17
4.	"Down in the Valley"	Bert Berns, Solomon Burke, Babe Chivian, Joe Martin	3:02
5.	"I've Been Loving You Too Long"	Redding, Jerry Butler	3:10

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Shake"	Cooke	2:35
7.	"My Girl"	Smokey Robinson, Ronald White	2:52
8.	"Wonderful World"	Cooke, Lou Adler, Herb Alpert	3:00
9.	"Rock Me Baby"	B. B. King	3:20
10.	"Satisfaction"	Mick Jagger, Keith Richards	2:45
11.	"You Don't Miss Your Water"	William Bell	2:53

 

the five composers and other stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_%28composers%29

Paris Blender

This render took about 30 minutes.

The one below, not nearly so long....

Blender

It's all about the windows really. Just get a bunch of windows looking right....

This morning

Oh, I almost forgot...

I installed Makehuman.
Then I did a lot of paving stones....

Paris on the Seine

This is a scene from a NG photographer...

It really inspired me. For obvious reasons.

Here's what I've done so far tonight...

I didn't let the numbers get in the way of having a good time and just drawing it...