Oh I think that art like that is very impportant because it lends itself to being read on sorts of levels. Looking forward to seeing what gets built of your designs Roy :) I played with meshlab again and got much better resukts by ticking the box that says (can't remember exactyly) something to do with keeping fidelity. If you just upload a simple low poly 'sphere' into Pepakura you get to see what t he tabs should look like. In Pepakura I've noticed with high poly models the tabs (they show up on the flattened map) are all over the place - so that seems to be a limiting factor. Possibly a better result would come from fibreglass tissue paper and solar setting resin Setting times vary quite rapidly depending on temperature and can go off really quickly (I used to make surfboards)

He also says y ou could use resin impregnated paper - you can get solar setting polyester resin - this would seem to be the go - as catalyst Now trying plaster impregnated tape - looking good. Recently he has been trying to smooth it so has been gluing small pieces of newspaper over the joins He prints the map out on paper then sticks it to cardboard then glues it, uses electrical tape to keep it in place, interesting video on costume building but shows techniques Ĭhap at workl spends a lot of time making Halo helmets or something similar, eg of what I am interested in /5267504906

PS I am aware that decimate means :reduce by a tenth. If I don’t reduce the poly count I get a zillion polys and Pepakura tells me I will spend the rest of my life making the “sculpture”ġ) anyone else playing with this software.Ģ) have you any success using high poly commercail meshes.?ģ) Can anyone recommend a good quality poly reduction software? So I want to use a monkey obj that I have posed as a basis for a clay or resin sculpture but have way too many polys.Ĭarrara “decimation” is pretty crappy and I must selecxt peices of the Obj file to decimate otherwise she crashes.Ĭarrara crashes anyway when I try to ” decimate” the paws.

Pepakura is software that takes an obj file and prints out the polygpons with tabs so that you can join them together to make a 3d sculpture out of paper cardboard and then use it as a mold or fibreglass the paper etc - and further work it up.

Pepakura 3d models