{"id":1244,"date":"2013-07-23T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2013-07-23T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:40:45","slug":"art-of-illusion-tool-for-modelling-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Art of Illusion, tool for modelling in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofillusion.org\/\">Art of Illusion<\/a> is a good candidate for the first 3D modelling tool. It is quite straightforward to learn, and it is sufficient for basic work.<\/p>\n<p>I was searching for a 3D modelling tool in order to create book cover illustration for my book. After trying several alternatives I ended up with AOI because of it&#8217;s easiness to use (as compared to other free tools). Clearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">Blender<\/a> is more capable, but the Blender GUI is too complex and distracting, and I did not find a way to simplify it.<\/p>\n<p>The figure below shows the result after first day of using Art of Illusion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"AOI-3\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-3-small.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then after 2nd day I got a football playing robot ready too. (Except the football is a 3D model from internet resources).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"AOI-1\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-1-small.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 3rd day, I find the transparent view as the most convinient way of working. In the camera view, I normally use the rendered view. Also, some plugins and scripts have been added from AOI repository, see screenshot below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"AOI-4\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-4-small.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m trying to &#8220;print out&#8221; the cleaning robot by using a 3D printing service. It seems that the STL export plugin generated an exploded view of articles and therefore I had to use Blender to generate the STL file for 3D printing.<\/p>\n<p>The rendering result from AOI are shown here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-railshuttle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"AOI-railshuttle\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-railshuttle-small.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-cleaningrobot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"AOI-cleaningrobot\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aoi-cleaningrobot-small.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art of Illusion is a good candidate for the first 3D modelling tool. It is quite straightforward to learn, and it is sufficient for basic work. I was searching for a 3D modelling tool in order to create book cover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=1244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,16,74,34,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}