I am totally enthralled with the awesome power of Boris' titling and FX capabilities. The learning curve has been somewhat steep... but I am an amateur--if I can figure this stuff out I guess probably any regular at this site could learn it.
One of the coolest things I've been having fun with is: Learned a bit about Mercator maps--these are things like world maps in 2D, everyone has seen these. Once you have a proper Mercator map of something, saved as a jpeg image for example, you can import the 2D image into Boris and convert it with a click into a spherical object. Thus, if you do this with a Mercator map of the world you actually generate a world globe that you can spin, bounce, fragment, whatever you like to do with a sphere.
So it turns out that there are ways of generating what amount to 2D Mercator maps of other spherical objects, e.g., baseballs. If anyone is interested let me know and I will steer you to an excellent tutorial on how to make a baseball.
But this made me wonder, and who better than experienced Boris users to ask--is there software available, or even a collection of ready-made 2D images, that would be useful for making or obtaining the 2D maps that convert to various types of spherical objects?
The list of possibilities might be pretty long but would certainly include patterns with specialized symmetry or no symmetry, e.g., various map styles of the Earth, baseballs, basketballs, tennis balls, a peeled whole orange, etc, or even patterns with high symmetry, i.e., golf balls, soccer balls.
I also hope to experiment a little with projecting Mercator maps of "close-to-spherical" objects on to Boris spheres--e.g., it might be really cool to turn a human head into a primitive spherical object with this technique.
Anyone have experience with any of this?
Best regards,
Lee
One of the coolest things I've been having fun with is: Learned a bit about Mercator maps--these are things like world maps in 2D, everyone has seen these. Once you have a proper Mercator map of something, saved as a jpeg image for example, you can import the 2D image into Boris and convert it with a click into a spherical object. Thus, if you do this with a Mercator map of the world you actually generate a world globe that you can spin, bounce, fragment, whatever you like to do with a sphere.
So it turns out that there are ways of generating what amount to 2D Mercator maps of other spherical objects, e.g., baseballs. If anyone is interested let me know and I will steer you to an excellent tutorial on how to make a baseball.
But this made me wonder, and who better than experienced Boris users to ask--is there software available, or even a collection of ready-made 2D images, that would be useful for making or obtaining the 2D maps that convert to various types of spherical objects?
The list of possibilities might be pretty long but would certainly include patterns with specialized symmetry or no symmetry, e.g., various map styles of the Earth, baseballs, basketballs, tennis balls, a peeled whole orange, etc, or even patterns with high symmetry, i.e., golf balls, soccer balls.
I also hope to experiment a little with projecting Mercator maps of "close-to-spherical" objects on to Boris spheres--e.g., it might be really cool to turn a human head into a primitive spherical object with this technique.
Anyone have experience with any of this?
Best regards,
Lee