[curiosity22]

G'day all,

I have been trying to make an image of st george and the dragon to do a bas relief. Its my patron saint..

Haven't had much luck creating a hight map, so was wondering if anyone had an image they would like to share?

I just cant find an image thats clean enough of large enough to work with..

Cheers,

Steve

[Wolffie]

How about this one?

How big do you need it?
Cheers
Wolffie

[curiosity22]

Oh whow,

As large as possible if that's ok please... big enough so if I need to double its size it won't pix-elate.. Ultimate goal is to make something that is at least 16" x 16".

Many thanks ...

Steve

How about this one?

How big do you need it?
Cheers
Wolffie

[Wolffie]

What software are you using?
Attachment 197290
This one is about 640mm square, sorry, don't do inches :banana:
Cheers
Wolffie

[curiosity22]

That's 2 ft 1 13/64 inch or 25 13/64 inches - using bmp bender - jdpaint - m3..

Even though millimeters are simpler to use - I just can't get rid of inches (sort of gives away my age) it took me too long to learn what inches, feet, yards, chain, lengths miles and gallons where... before someone decided what I had spent most of my childhood learning was no longer relevant... I'm still good with the Americans though :P...

The height map from that would be awesome if you don't mind sharing it - the rest I can do from there...

Regards,

Steve

[curiosity22]

As a by the by what did you use to clean up the image and produce the height map?

The best I've been able to do with a st george has been...

Attachment 197442

Constructing a 3d scene myself but its not very good... it needs a lot more work - background has height information which needs to be removed st george looks more like a gladiator, dragon needs more work and detail etc etc etc ..

[Wolffie]

Don't know any of those programs, I use Aspire4 from Vectric.
I agree it is not a very good picture you have, I tried to remove the background but the colours are too interlaced. Did you convert it to a negative?
I also agree that St George looks terrible, more like a court jester than a warrior
Well, I grew up with metric, came here in 1968 and had a hellofaproblem working out Imperial. I was soooo happy when they changed to metric.
Thank goodness for calculators when I work with american models
Cheers
Wolffie

[curiosity22]

Regal Robotics 500 Series - Large Scale 5-Axis CNC Router by Donnie Weir ? Kickstarter

For anyone that's interested looks like an interesting inexpensive 5 axis solution... by the way the project is going it looks like it will make and exceed the amount needed for funding...

I have no idea though if it is a solid machine...