I’ve been working for quite a while on the design for a sort of falsework funerary monument project, something like a dakhma or Tower of Silence in terms of architectural program, to be constructed largely of standard pipe-and-clamp scaffolding materials. In modeling it, I’ve been taking advantage of Rhino’s ability to assign a pipe-like thickness to individuals curves using the curve piping attribute. This is the latest WIP rendering for the scheme, which is getting to close to design completion.
Yes, it’s supposed to look like the cover of a “dollar dreadful” science fiction paperback, the sort of thing you would find in on a drugstore rack back in the Seventies in the US suburbs. I’ve always been impressed by the wildly symbolic covers that artists dreamed up for these things, which were often more unique than their literary contents if my memory serves me correctly.
There was a lot of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator work overlaid upon the Rhino-generated rendering to get here.
(Hua Ruisi, or Huà Ruì Sī 华锐思 is the name I used when I studied Mandarin. It sounds vaguely like “Wa Lewis” when you say it quickly with the right tones. So that can be my alter-ego, as a 1970’s hack author.)
I think this is probably the most bizarre rendering I have ever developed, and since it seems to be attracting some interesting attention I think that I’m eventually going to style all of the presentation drawings for the project like this, as if they were cover designs for separate volumes in Hua Ruisi’s new “blockbuster action-packed series”.
But in the meantime here are some slightly more conventional WIP renderings from earlier in the design process carried out in a different idiom.
