http://k3dsurf.sourceforge.net/ (http://k3dsurf.sourceforge.net/)
and some nice stuff created with the above: http://k3dsurf.s4.bizhat.com/k3dsurf-ftopic9-0-asc-0.html (http://k3dsurf.s4.bizhat.com/k3dsurf-ftopic9-0-asc-0.html)
anyone here used it?
it looks cool,
its multi format, and saves as obj...I may give this a spin on my mac
Interesting find (for some reason or the other)!
Thanks for making me aware of that.
mmmm, I did a bit of reading, possibly wont work on my mac, unless I install QT3???....I may try to get it to run on my old machine?
also found this:
http://www.topmod3d.org/ (http://www.topmod3d.org/)
anyone else have any knowledge/experience here?
"anyone else have any knowledge/experience here?"
What exactly do you want to know?
@j meyer sorry for being ambiguous, I am interested in, specifically; freeware programs that are usable on a mac, and that are capable of creating polyhedral models that are savable as objs, or at least something like that!
Quote from: inkydigit on November 26, 2009, 10:07:25 AM
mmmm, I did a bit of reading, possibly wont work on my mac, unless I install QT3???..
http://www.topmod3d.org/ (http://www.topmod3d.org/)
Hi,
It sounded interesting so I had a look, the Qt it wants is referring to Qt http://qt.nokia.com/ (http://qt.nokia.com/)
the cross platform development toolkit from Nokia not QuickTime.
The mac version has Qt 4.3 included in the add bundle so it should just be a plain download and run.
Dave
Inkydigit, if you want to create polyhedral models, a free Java app is available here:
http://bulatov.org/polyhedra/stellation_applet/ - scroll down to the bottom for the stellation.zip executable
I've run it on both Macs and PCs.
I posted a bit more about it here: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6244.0
thanks Dave and Dom...I will check those out!
Topmod should be good for that and more.
yeah as I had suspected, even after installing Qt3, as required, k3dsurf instacrashes every time...bummer, topmod works fine, now all I need to do is work out how to use it...looks fun anyway!
http://mac.freshmeat.net/tags/scientificengineering
TopMod3d looked interesting until I read this on the download page:
"TopMod 2.0 is the latest release. It is still quite buggy, and it will definitely crash a lot while you are using it."
:(
John
Can't blame them for being honest, right?
Quote from: schmeerlap on November 28, 2009, 05:02:19 AMTopMod3d looked interesting until I read this on the download page:
"TopMod 2.0 is the latest release. It is still quite buggy, and it will definitely crash a lot while you are using it."
:(
John
it's true, I think you have to be very careful when manipulating the complex geometry, its easy to ask it to do something impossible!
Thanks Inky. Looks interesting.
I have played with it. I can't seem to export the shapes. Any ideas?
save as xxxx.obj? works on the mac?
http://jason-c.deviantart.com/art/Mandala-137846373 (http://jason-c.deviantart.com/art/Mandala-137846373)
an example of what can be made with topmod, and rendered with other app by jason-c at DA....
I am still getting my head round this app, and it is great fun, mindboggling at times , but good fun also, I will post any images that I create as and when they occur!
cheers
J
ps here is another done with Blender..
http://adlm.artician.com/portfolio/Paperweight1/ (http://adlm.artician.com/portfolio/Paperweight1/)
and here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/groovelock/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/groovelock/)
:D
While looking at those links I did a little digging, and came across this: http://shapes.aimatshape.net/
and this: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~visit3d/webservice/v2/screenshots.php
Might be useful to someone?
DandelO might like the Posiden model for his underwater scenes.