Evil George Builds His Own Prison - Final Result

EVIL GEORGE BUILDS HIS OWN PRISON

This model is abstracted from a photogammatery of a George Bush doll. The distortion is based on the concept of the Klein Bottle and the infinite loop. What was once the hands, feet, head and back of George Bush is now stretched to an external shell, which then folds back onto himself. The evil actions coming out from his hands and his head now comes back, like karma, to build his own prison.

Evil George Builds His Own Prison - Development

The model deviated from the lattice pattern i was experimenting with for two reasons. One was that the lattice modifier presented the worst case scenario STL Check. Second of all was that it completely knocked off any reading of the folding effect which i was trying to achieve as seen in the two images below.

PROCESS

1. Model was Resized to fit within 100mm cube.

2. Using a series of FFD Modifiers the hand, head, and back was attached to the exterior surface of the model as per the original bottom. Vertex snap and welding secured them to the surface.

3. The model was taken through a Optimise Modifier and then a MeshSmooth modifier to decrease and then smooth out the number of polygons. A series of STL Check modifier was stacked under Edit Mesh Modifiers to delete/edit the error polygons. 

The final cleaned surface was then offset to the thickness using the Shell Modifier.  

 4. A series of spheres was placed around the model. A series of Booleans was done to cut the surface using these spheres.

Final Result!

Evil George - Progress

George Bush Model - With Background.

George Bush Model - Reconstructed: Octree Depth 6

George Bush Model - Reconstructed: Octree Depth 8

George Bush Model - Background Deleted Octree Depth 9

George Bush MAX Render - watertight

Evil George

George Bush - From Russells office

93% Synthy

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Error Shots: A previous attempt to shoot an object under the same lighting condition yielded only 27% synthy.  The guess was the lack of color variation in the model taken, and the incompleteness of a 360o shoot through of the object. 

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Postscript: Another attempt was taken on another more detailed and more color varied object. However, the model only yielded a 59% synthyness. it was with daylight that was streamed in from one direction (from the window). The contrast between highly illuminated and dimmed down photograhs separated the synths, even when the photos were level corrected in Photoshop.

PhotoSynth Dos:

- choose object with more detail and panorama (+50% synthy)
- change the color levels in photoshop before synthing (+6% synthy)

PhotoSynth Donts:

- take object in a variable light condition (-25% synthy, ie the overshadowed face will not match)