Archive for December, 2009

Long-Distance Photos with K200D

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

imgp8140-smGrabbed some more photos of the FEC Railway bridge yesterday with the DSLR. The resolution improvement over my old 5MP camera is pretty great.

Also with my 80-200mm lens, being able to zoom in and grab some detail over using digital zoom is a much needed improvement.

After beginning to model the bridge, I found areas that I did not have reference photos for so I did not know how to model those details, which I knew would happen. The entire process is progressively getting smoother as I go, partially due to the development of a production flow and to the additional tools.

FEC Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

I’ve begun working on this bridge. LWCAD has helped immensely with the process so far. It’s just beginning but already off to a good start.

FED bridge 01

2010 is Upon Me!

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Geez, didn’t realize it’s been so long since posting here. Guess I should at least post something before the year’s out. Not much progress lately on Jax3D, but Viktor Veličko did release a new update to LWCAD which is pretty awesome. Still haven’t sat down to learn all the tools, but I’m working on it.