Metal Fabric - just an exercise

[HornOxx]

... Hi All, I´m just playing around with only 2 components, trying to imitate a metal fabric
This little exercise is native SkUp modeled. Beside Follow Me, just copying and rearranging, mirror, rotate and move. [SkUp 2017 Make, Enscape 2.6.1]

[L i am]

Really interesting work HorNox Did you come up with the weave?

[HornOxx]

many thanks Liam - yes and no
something "horseshoe"-shaped like this I had seen before. The wavy wires were an attempt to connect these rows then.

[L i am]

Ingenious mate

[HornOxx]

... thanks again - to be honest, I have no idea if something like this would be possible in real life. Playing with weavings(?) is interesting however and fun

[Mike Amos]

I agree with L i am, blindin' skill.

[HornOxx]

thanks Mike

[Box]

Very nice.

[Bryan K]

Excellent modeling, but man, it must make for a large file size?

[HornOxx]

Thanks Box and Bryan

...it must make for a large file size?

wich would be true especially since I have modelled these small tubes dilettantishly bad and way to big. But since I made a proxy from only one fabric part, for the final rendering model I just added these light proxies.
(The SkUp screenshot above I made just to show the simple weave principle)

[Bryan K]

Cool. That makes sense.

[hellnbak]

Very impressive work! Obviously took a lot of thought and planning.
I remember congratulating myself when I made this, but your work makes mine seem like basket weaving .

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[HornOxx]

Wow Hellnbak thanks, but your´s is ingenious basket weaving indeed !!! - to lay my few base geometries flat on the floor and to copy paste them is not difficult at all - but how did you bend your fabric like a tire ?!

[hellnbak]

Thanks, HornOxx. I really don't remember how I did it, but your Metal Fabric is much more impressive to me. Well done !

[serrot]

Nice work, would love to see this applied as skin to a building.