Sextant WIP

[jamagica]

for a Lewis and Clark project in school I'm presenting different tools with 3D displays.

 

This is my first tool->the sexant

[bentothemax]

looks nice, maybe a rustic gold material to make it seem it came right out of the 1800s (If they had them) . . . did you use sweeper . . . i love that plug-in

 

 

By the way . . . what does a sextant do? Does it mesure angles or somthing, or star locations . . .

[jamagica]

I used the sweeper demo for the two bottom arches.

 

A sextant was a tool used to measure how high, in terms of angles, a location was. You'd peep through a sight and slowly move up the tool until you found your target. You'd look on that bottom arch, and wherever the index arm (the big thing that looks like a grandfather clock "bell") is pointing to, that's the number of degress the location is from you wherever you are

[Kamikaze]

Nice modeling...some texturing and your there.........

Looking forward to more,

 

Michael

[jamagica]

Alright...added just a few things. right now the work time is slow because AM keeps closing out on me once in awhile (haven't lost anything yet)

 

Got a q. is 707 patches for this model too much?

[jamagica]

Wireframe

[jamagica]

I jus redid the mirror and now I only have 668 patches! Whoa...talk about waste of time

[jamagica]

More....I'm going to delete patches when I'm done

[jamagica]

I just noticed that some of you mention texturing ideas...I actually don't have time to. It's all going to be a white render...I'm almost finished:

[Stillmore]

Very cool looking sextant. Nice bit of mechanical modeling.

[apprentice]

Good piece of modelling. Thanks for sharing, somewhat it inspired me. Looking forward for the next tools you're working on.

[jamagica]

In the showcase area, you'll see "chronometer", which is like a compass..it's very simple, though

[Kamikaze]

Looking fine.....those things sure have a lotta dodads attached to them,now Im curious how they woeked guess Ill have to go googling...

 

Michael

[jamagica]

List of tools

 

This site has many of the methods/tools used on the expedition

 

in the sextant section you'll see that there is a 360 degree turnaround of one..that was my reference