Hey, everyone! I've been out of town and haven't been able to post. Seems like folks are getting peeved about Eovia.... Well, here's something to take your mind off of the problems. Use your software (C or RD) and make something you see in your kitchen. Try to do it in 15 minutes or less, but if you go over, that's OK, too. Just a chance to play, learn and have some fun. My cup was free-form all the way. Cloud object in a cylinder made the steam.

I don't cook enough to have kitchen objects to model. But, my mom has one of these cutting boards. Don't know how common they are, or if they're just a Midwestern thing.

That's cool, Terri! I think I might have moved the camera a bit, so it looks like the viewpoint of a little child looking up at the cutting board hanging on the wall.... We had one shaped like a cow.... (In Arizona -- not the Midwest, at all....)

I agree, hanging on the wall would have been a more interesting choice. I was going for lying flat on the countertop, as I was trying to hide the fact I wasn't sure how to texture it so that the sides look painted red, while keeping the wood finish from topside. I just saw the pig kind growing up, but I see more variety in shapes these days. Yo! Litst! What shape do they use in France? Cheese-shaped?

I remember my mother and aunt having one of those pig shaped cutting boards. It probably is a midwestern thing. I'm from Minnesota.

First thing that came to mind. Couldn't have taken more than 15 mins.

Haven't seen one of these in a long time.

Cool stuff, everybody! Izuel -- your fridge looks odd to me; where are you from? Europe, maybe? And Kix -- I haven't seen an old percolating coffee pot in forever. But you did a great job building it! Keep your eyes out for more quickies. And don't forget the current contest!

Yea the frig is odd to me too. I made it really quick with the easiest way i could think of. BTW, i live in Texas

Ah! Texas. That oddest of foriegn countries.... :o) I used to live in Austin and worked around the state -- it's a strange place, Texas....

Had to add one of thise "Midwest" things. To make a long story short the modeling took about 15 minutes, the scanning & figuring out those shaders took anothe 1/2 hour & trying to get "C" to cooperate took another 1/2 hour!

If at first...

WoW! The only thing I'd suggest is making the paper towel more nubbly. The cow itself looks photographic, you had me doing a double take.

Wow, indeed! Did you scan the texture for the cow? It looks perfect! (Even with the little tomato-sauce splatter stain on her back!) I'd agree about putting some kind of bumps in the bump channel on the paper towels, but it really does read like a photo. And how long did it take you to put this one together?

Very nice pictures everyone ! Willf, you cow is incredible ! =) Terri, if you were a good cooker, you'd knew that several cutting boards are necessary : one for each kind of meat . So there are some shaped like a pig, like a cow, like fish ... So stop eating plastic cheese and go cook ! ;) litst ( not a real masochist !)

Thanks for the comments. Yes, the cow & the paper towel textures were scanned from the "real" things and mapped to the faces of the spline objects. I use the scanned image to make the outline shape for the spline object for the cow (select backround of image, fill with white & save to use a t-map, then invert & fill with black-save as grayscale & bring into Adobe Streamline to convert to eps that will be imported to Spline Modeler. This makes for a perfect fit & minimizes any image distortion. The paper towel roll is a spiral rule done in Illustrator, converted to a outline path & imported to Spline Modeler. The "top" has a wood (center section) bump mapped to that face, that's why I didn't add one to the paper "face". All told, I guess I spent 1 1/2 hrs on it. The real question is: Was the Spagettie Sauce on the scanner glass or on the real cow?

Litst, maybe the next thing I'll cook is a nice batch of Soylent Green -- French flavored. Willf, how many times have I got to tell you not to use your scanner as a buffet tray? --Terri