Kuen Pseudosherical Surface (Award Winning) by Luc2
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Description
This is a representation of the Kuen surface, a pseudosherical surface.
It's my first serious work with Carrara.
The 3D object and the 3 graphics on the paper sheet are from 3D-XplorMath, the handwrite equation is from my good friend the mathematician Richard Palais professor at UCI and creator of 3D-XplorMath. The pencil come from; http://www.virtual-lands-3d.com/ I adapted the material of it for my need.
I tried various way to represent this surface over the last 3 years, this is my last and final try... I hope :-)
Update: My friend Richard Palais and I, have won the first place, illustration category, in the 2009 National Science Foundation�s International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
The title of the image for the NSF Challange was "Kuen's Surface: A Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky and Quantum Fields"
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners_2009.jsp#illustration
Comments (10)
DarkStormCrow
Very cool and nice colors, well done...
erlandpil
Great idea and image erland
Fidelity2
F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C. 5+!
Therese2
Félicitation! Vraiment magnifique ! Du très beau travail, les couleurs sont splendide.
amota99517
This turned out so great. I can see that you are going to have with this program.
tresamie
Incredibly beautiful math! What a treat to see numbers defining shapes :)
Titia
Reflections and surfaces are amazing...
neoexcello
It's a lovely mystery.
njb2000
Great looking object I like the marbled glass effect!
Antaran
Lovely image! Congratulations! The caustics are beautiful and add a lot of realism. I think with some better wood texture it could easily pass for a photo.