Last week we begun to get stuck in to our class project on reconstructing 1876 Northfield and the context of the James-Younger raid. We began the process of digitizing building footprints and gathering the archival research that will let us build them in 3D. This week we are going to
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Virtual Home
I made a 2D image of my current house. The process was kind of hard trying to figure it out by myself, but I was able to get a hang of how to use sketch-up. With the addition of the youtube tutorials, I was able to do most of the
Continue readingMy fail at recreating my old house!
The process of thinking of how I wanted to recreate my childhood house was indeed a difficult one because of how weird my house was structured. I tried my best to recreate the front as best as I could. The hardest part is being very detailed. I am still figuring
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Getting Familiar with SketchUp Familiarizing myself with sketchup felt fairly intuitive through figuring out the uses of all the tools and watching a few tutorials to see how certain characteristics like windows could make be made more realistic. I had fun translating memories of my childhood home to a 3D
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In my Digital Humanities class, I was tasked to create a 3D model of my house using SketchUp. After only a brief demonstration, I set out to work on it. Although there were definitely some kinks I had to work out… Keyboard Shortcuts: If you’ve never used SketchUp before (or
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A Model of my Home (A rough one)
drive-download-20180105T203948Z-001 Making this house was kinda hard. It involved a lot of moving around and changing the orientation. But in the end it wasn’t extremely difficult. I would definitely advise novices using SketchUp that you can set the height and width of any structure you’re drawing, as this makes things
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The 3D software with the gentlest learning curve is SketchUp. Formerly owned by Google, it puts an emphasis on ease of use and compatibility with other popular platforms like Google Earth. This is the software that many of the 3D buildings you might have seen in Google Earth were created
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