Jonathan Nelsen

All good ideas. I have used different things in my past models including steel wool, wadded up trace, The braided metal wire that you can separate to create the branching structure, etc, but these were at around 20 scale. The model I am working on now is more conceptual, more about massing, scale etc rather than looking realistic or model railroad…[Read more]

There is a book I have read titled Botany of Desire…Talks about different plants such as Apple, Cannabis, etc, and relates them to things people desire. I read it a long time ago so dont remember exactly but very interesting non the less.

From Amazon.com:
Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do…[Read more]

This is very interesting. I am working on creating a plan for the old gates rubber factory site and I-25/Broadway park and ride for class and think I am going to work in one of these b-cycle things near the station. Sounds like there may be some problems with the system but hopefully with time the kinks can get worked out.

Thanks for that Nick, I did get in contact with the planning office and they did give me a password for the ftp server. Working on attempting to get some data now. Thanks again for the leads!

Hey,
Thanks for the responses everyone…I am working on a project for my studio class which is the reason for my search. We were just in Denver last weekend visiting our site, which is the old Gates Rubber Factory at the corner of Mississippi and Broadway in Denver. Should be a fun project, but still having trouble finding a base map. It appears…[Read more]

Thanks, we ended up using the google earth technique.

Awesome, thanks for the leads…
I guess I am looking for any plant materials, both 2d or 3d, I have mostly worked in sketchup and have used both 2d face me components, as well as fully 3d. I am working in 3d studio more these days and looking more for plants that would work on there. Thanks again for the help!

Jon

Awesome!! Thanks Lisa 🙂

Ive wondered about this also…I don’t understand how to cut out trees and other plants, there obviously must be a way as those websites have done it, but I still haven’t figured out an easy way to get a good cutout around all the leaves and removing the background between leaves. Any help would be great!