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Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect, then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated.
First attempt, 2 gears:
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5567/planetaryxl1.gif
Second attempt, 5 gears (1 annulus gear, three planetary gears, and a sun gear). Had a heckuva time figuring out the rotation for the central gear. Run the vid twice. For some reason, the first time it runs way too fast.
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Elwin Estle wrote the following on 12/9/2008 8:26 AM:
Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect, then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated.
First attempt, 2 gears:
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5567/planetaryxl1.gif
Second attempt, 5 gears (1 annulus gear, three planetary gears, and a sun gear). Had a heckuva time figuring out the rotation for the central gear. Run the vid twice. For some reason, the first time it runs way too fast.
SWEET! The 5 gear animation reminds me the the Ubuntu logo...or perhaps Kubuntu. ;) Excellent work.
heathenx
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2008/12/9 Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...>:
Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect, then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated.
First attempt, 2 gears:
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5567/planetaryxl1.gif
Second attempt, 5 gears (1 annulus gear, three planetary gears, and a sun gear). Had a heckuva time figuring out the rotation for the central gear. Run the vid twice. For some reason, the first time it runs way too fast.
Third attempt, Complete clock mechanism: ......I look forward to that :-)
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I have thought about something like that. Only a Movie countdown. Something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_iGD-5qmSs
Which I did entirely in Blender, but with some gears added. I was thinking something steampunkish.
--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Philip Stubbs <philip@...2526...> wrote:
From: Philip Stubbs <philip@...2526...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape to Blender:Planetary gears To: chrysalis_reborn@...12..., "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 10:38 AM 2008/12/9 Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...>:
Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect,
then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated.
First attempt, 2 gears:
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5567/planetaryxl1.gif
Second attempt, 5 gears (1 annulus gear, three
planetary gears, and a sun gear). Had a heckuva time figuring out the rotation for the central gear. Run the vid twice. For some reason, the first time it runs way too fast.
Third attempt, Complete clock mechanism: ......I look forward to that :-)
-- Philip Stubbs
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Elwin Estle wrote:
Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect, then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated.
First attempt, 2 gears:
How did you animate this? Did you import the SVG into Blender? A while ago, someone posted an animated clock consisting of several planetary gears. It was online as an SVG, and the animation was done using JavaScript.
Claus
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Claus Cyrny wrote:
Elwin Estle wrote:
Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect, then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated.
First attempt, 2 gears:
How did you animate this? Did you import the SVG into Blender?
Sorry, I should have read your post more thoroughly! ;-)
Claus
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Claus Cyrny
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heathenx
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Philip Stubbs