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Eiffel tower
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:20 am
by NicoR44
Hi all,
The town where I live here in the Netherlands will soon turn 1025 years, it's going to be a big festival.
Every street will have it's own decoration, our street will turn in to France for a few days, and I'm the one who has the privilege to build the Eiffel tower.
Material will be 3mm laser cut sheet aluminum.
it's going to be 6.5 meters = 21.32 feet high and the base is going to be 2.5 meters = 8.20 feet wide.
here is a first impression of what it's going to look like, actually this is not the final version because in the mean time I have found some of the original blue-prints
hope you like it, once I have the new version I'll post it here

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:53 am
by Neil Evans
Hi Nico
Nice project to do, you'll have to show us the final photos as well
By the way is there an echo in here??
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:57 am
by NicoR44
Thanks I will!!
Neil Evans wrote:
By the way is there an echo in here??
hehehehe, corrected

eiffel
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:57 am
by Olivier Cugniet
Hi Nico,
I think i have somewhere a model of the eiffel tower. I can give it to you as a reference....
cheers,
Olivier
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:13 am
by Fernando Tella
I have some old pictures. If I have a time I'll upload them for you.
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:18 am
by NicoR44
Thanks Olivier that would be great!
Hi Fernando, Thanks man!!
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:43 am
by Mihai
You'll need rivets.......lots of rivets

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:46 am
by NicoR44
ain't that a bitch

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:19 pm
by Fernando Tella
One collage:
Cheers!
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:58 pm
by glebe digital
Good luck Nico..........I've a model of the tower here too, shout if you need it.

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:21 pm
by NicoR44
Thanks guys!!
woow great photo, that helps!!
Thanks glebe

I think I have evrything I need now, had a "bit" of help from Olivier also;)
I will post an update later on today

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:45 pm
by Xlars
Super .. I love the look and feel of this rendering (coloring, light, composition etc.) Simple looking (not simple model) and cool atmosphere.
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:27 am
by Hervé
he he that's going to be cool.... there is a resto at 2nd floor ....

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:29 pm
by NicoR44
Thanks guys!
hehe due to the new great reference I got from Olivier and the photo above from Fernando (thanks guys!!) I was forced to redo the structure
yeah I've been on the tower a few times now, every time I'm up there I grow to love it more, never been in the restaurant, maybe sometime.
Btw does anyone know if it has a Michelin star?
here are two new quick renders to show the new version, when you compare the two you will see that the new one is much more realistic
ow, here is a little info:
Geometry:
Num Meshes: 7
Num Triangles: 487384
Num Vertexes: 239963
Num Normals: 23153
Bitmaps:
Num Bitmaps: 0

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:39 pm
by Hervé
Nico, what 's your city in NL... I'd like to see it build...
cool render, but that's usual....
