A dozen T-Splines models from Cafer

[Matt Sederberg]

Cafer at McNeel Asia has created over a dozen T-Splines models and made the .3dm files available for download!

These are great models to examine, since they are simple but are well constructed.

Here's the links for the images and models:

http://www.surface3d.com.tw/tsplines/animals.htm
http://www.surface3d.com.tw/tsplines/models.htm

[JSantocono]

Cafer, I really, really like your models!
Specially the animals.
I like the renders and the texture work too. Beautifull

Thanks for sharing!

JuanS

[Matt Sederberg]

Another model from Cafer here:
http://www.surface3d.idv.tw/surface3dpB ... f=12&t=810

[schultzeworks]

I'll be using these as a demonstration of T-Splines' capabilities in my class. Thank you.

By the way, these are in a format I've never seen called '.TSM' which I assume is for TSplinesModel. I opened an empty file in Rhino and then used Import ... and they worked fine. Weird but true.

[Adam Helps]

"TSM" stands for "T-Splines Mesh." It's a portable format for storing T-Splines data. Of course, there aren't any other major commercial applications which use T-Splines right now, so it's really just a way of exporting individual T-Splines from Rhino, but if we add other 3-d modeling programs in future it will be a way of transporting T-Spline surfaces between them.

You can import and export TSM files directly from Rhino. I believe drag-and-drop works as well.

[schultzeworks]

Aha, you guys are thinking way ahead of the curve with the new format. Very cool.

Hey, I was curious about one of the renders above. Specifically, the first Rhino model where it is fully rendered and still shows the T-Splines isocurves. Is that a special material shader --or-- is it a Photoshop composite technique, using a viewport screen capture and a rendering?

[TomFinnigan]

I don't know about this particular model, but I do know that _ExtractWireframe works on T-Splines..

[JSantocono]

Hi SchultzeWorks,
I did the render and is a photoshop technique, as you said. (rendering + viewport capture)
I did it really fast. You can see the miss match on the Rhino legs

JuanS