Sunday, January 28, 2018

Top 20 of the 20th century

Beatles
Duke Ellington
One hit wonders
(Bing Crosby)
Nelson Riddle
Rogers and Hammerstein or Hart
Hank Williams
The Sherman Brothers
(Elvis and Frank)
(Louis Armstrong)
Cole Porter
Chuck Berry
Franz Waxman
John Williams
Henry Mancini
(Miles and Coltrane)
(Dizzy Gillespie)
((Ray Charles))
James Brown
Carole King
[Led Zeppelin]
Irving Berlin
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lieber and Stroller
The Motown writers
Buddy Holly
Scott Joplin





Saturday, January 27, 2018

Vectors in Inkscape etc

Inkscape allows the creation of vector images from pretty much any image file.

Open Inkscape and load an image.
Select the image and then in the menu select Path > Trace Bitmap.
You will probably need to adjust Brightness cutoff and/or Threshold to get your trace to look just right.
So then do this.
You can do this over and over, with the

You will need to save this file. (It will be an SVG that Blender can import.)
Open this file in Blender and then you can export it as a DXF file into an autocad (Dassault) emulator. Then do what you wish.
All manner of edits can ensue.

http://goinkscape.com/how-to-vectorize-in-inkscape/

This can just go on forever. Especially if you use BLAM in Blender to set pure XYZ coordinates.
Perhaps the ideal thing is just to have a great artist like my son Joseph Banks to draw it in 2d.

(OMG there are so many  more steps.....Not up to it. right now.)

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Vertices. ... To create a new vertexchange to EditMode, hold down CTRL, and click with the LMB. Of course, as a computer screen is two-dimensional, Blender can't determine all three vertex coordinates from one mouse click, so the new vertex is placed at the depth of the 3D cursor 'into' the screen.

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Inkscape

Downloading Inkscape tonight. Hope it works live every other source program.

The forums say "If the content contained in the PDF is already in vector format, import it into Inkscape. Save as  a SVG and import the SVG into Blender."

or
"Convert the PDF to a format the Blender can read. Maybe trace it in Inkscape and save as SVG file"

Hmm