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3D printed Functy rings
A parcel arrived from Shapeways recently containing some of the 3D printed ring prototypes I generated using Functy. The models were exported directly from Functy and converted into STY format before being directly uploaded to Shapeways for printing. All based on sine/cosine curves, there’s a flat version, a slightly bulging version and an irregular version. Since Shapeways did such a brilliant job printing the prototypes, the next step is to get them to print them in silver. Click on the links if you fancy having your own printed!
The Functy function files for all of these rings are up in the repository and will be included as example files in the next full release.
- Sine ring flat
- Sine ring bulge
- Sine ring irregular
- Sine ring flat
- Sine ring bulge
- Sine ring irregular
Animated Blender Render
After prompting by Tony’s superb gallery of images, I’ve spent a bit of time playing around using Blender to render models created using Functy.
This has also prompted a bit of extra functionality, and I’m hoping it will soon be able to export out multiple models from Functy to support animated functions. Using the current experimental code (there’s no front-end yet, but it’s in the pipeline) I managed to generate a kind of animated mercury whirlpool. It’s up on deviantart, and if you’re happy to wait for the download, please do take a look at the full animated version.
- Pre-render image from Functy
- Animation frame rendered using Blender
Brilliant Functy Renders by Tony Ralano
Tony Ralano has been creating some amazing renders by combining Functy models with his impressive Blender and 3DS Max skills. The image below is an example of a function exported out, then manipulated and rendered using Blender.
Functy 724 by Tony Ralano
Check out the original on deviantart. Tony’s gallery also contains a whole load of his other amazing creations. I plan to post up some more of Tony’s images over the next few weeks.
Interactive Functy function viewing
One of the obvious but neat consequences of having the new STL export functionality from Functy is that the generated models can be imported in to other things. One of these things… well, p3d.in provides a clever HTML5 in-browser model renderer, which means the models can now be rendered interactively directly into this site (or indeed any others). Check out this version of a ball made from string, generated as a couple of curve functions in Functy. Just click and drag to rotate the model. And if you like it, you can even print a copy in 3D!
