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Gallery => Amazing Shots => Topic started by: MichaelSesto on March 14, 2011, 12:53:55 PM

Title: Half Empty? Half Full?
Post by: MichaelSesto on March 14, 2011, 12:53:55 PM
I am the optimist. Keyshot gets me headed in the right direction, and fast! Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
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Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 14, 2011, 11:40:49 PM
that's funky looking glasses :)
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Post by: Gordon Lardi on March 15, 2011, 07:41:52 AM
NEVERMIND THAT IT WAS DONE IN KEYSHOT, I LOVE THIS DESIGN!!!!!WELL DONE :o
Title: Re: Half Empty? Half Full?
Post by: Gordon Lardi on March 15, 2011, 07:54:22 AM
HALF FULL ;D
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Post by: NormanHadley on March 16, 2011, 01:26:55 AM
Michael- really like these. I think it's my round so fancy a swig from this Klein bottle?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle)
Title: Re: Half Empty? Half Full?
Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 16, 2011, 03:04:37 AM
Nice one Norman !
Is that wine on the inside or on the outside ? :p  Can you render this without the wine ?  This way we can better view what the glass is doing at the botom of this.
Title: Re: Half Empty? Half Full?
Post by: NormanHadley on March 16, 2011, 04:03:22 AM
Hi Phillipe

Here is the 100% empty version. I've changed it to green because it looks unnaturally dark in white when you get more than one thickness. I should probably increase my ray bounces.
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Post by: justindustrial on March 16, 2011, 05:44:40 AM
Super cool, but it looks pretty tricky to pour out of!
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Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 17, 2011, 12:23:46 AM
Nevermind render quality .. it had to be a quick render before I start (real) work.

Seeing these funny glas things here, I had to do a quick concept-render of my "invention".  I've had this idea for quite a long time now .. a glass with integrated opener.  It doesn't have to be glass, it could be hard plastic like the one from re-usable-plastic-cups for festivals or such.
I have no idea if this could be produced ... either way ... I kinda like this idea as a gadget.
Title: Re: Half Empty? Half Full?
Post by: NormanHadley on March 17, 2011, 12:54:12 AM
Like the idea, Philippe, but that'd have to be one helluva material to do it in one. Probably a steel insert would be the way to go. I say this because my daughter made a bottle opener at school last year. In these health-and-safety-conscious times,  the only material they were entrusted to work with with was aluminium (that's "aluminum" for all you US-English speakers out there). After a dozen uses, it looked like it had been chewed by a tyrannosaur. Those crinkly steel caps are tougher than they look - as anyone who's ever tried to bit one off will attest.
Title: Re: Half Empty? Half Full?
Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 17, 2011, 01:17:34 AM
It does have a metal insert indeed.  That was part of the plan.

Unless for gadgetery .. it could be made from the same plastic used to make re-usable cups.  Here (in Belgium) on some festivals we have such cups and I can tell you .. the material used for those is so "hard-bitten" that you could step on one (real hard!) and it would NOT crack!  In the case of a gadget, who cares if it doesn't work +5.000 times to open a bottle ;)

But in this render it's glass with a chrome insert.  Perhaps scrached aluminium would have made that clearer ;)
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Post by: NormanHadley on March 17, 2011, 06:32:24 AM
QuoteIt does have a metal insert indeed.  That was part of the plan.

Ah, I see it now. Might be worth rendering it with an anodised metal finish so it stands out.
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Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 17, 2011, 06:43:23 AM
I've added it with the previous post.