Wood Grain Drawing vector wood grain effect is pretty simple in Adobe Illustrator. Here is a quick Illustrator tutorial to create wood grain effect using the warp tools in illustrator. After this tutorial, you will be able to draw nice vector wood textures. 1. Select the Rectangle Tool, and draw a thin rectangle. 2. Select all the rows of stripes then go to Object>Transform>Transform Each. 3. Double click the Warp Tool and use the settings below. 4. Next we select the Twirl Tool. 4. Using the Pucker Tool, with the setting above. 4. To make the stripes thinner, I select all the stripes and squash it using the Transform Tool. 5. Select all the wood grain and fill it with dark brown. Heres the final wood texture. Extra Tip: Applying the pucker effect above areas which has the twirl effect will give it a more natural look. [The article is for Basic Members only. Related Articles Get up to 35 free images from BigstockComplimentary video clips on Bigstock.Get up to 35 videos in a week. Hi.
Create A Wood Grain Texture In Illustrator Last up for Vectip’s Texture Week is wood grain. The steps for this technique are very similar to the previous Brushed Metal Texture tutorial. It uses the same Graphic Pen effect but stretched a little more. It also uses the Warp Tool and Twirl Tool. Also like the other texture tutorials, this technique is easy and applicable in logos, icons, interfaces or pretty much anything. Notes This tutorial was created with Illustrator CS3. Keyboard shortcuts are displayed in orange. ⌘ is displayed for the Command key (mac), with the Ctrl key being the Windows equivalent (not displayed). Rectangles Create a 5 inch by 5 inch rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (m). Next Copy (⌘c) the rectangle and Paste In Front (⌘f). Texture Select the smaller rectangle and go Effect > Sketch > Graphic Pen. Stroke Length = 15Light/Dark Balance = 2Stroke Direction = Vertical Trace and Expand With the texture selected go Object > Expand Appearance. I like to save a preset in the Tracing Options. Transform and Color Warp Tool
Work Log by Kevin Beason Bunny model available here. Ajax bust available here (thanks jotero!). Bunny scene was under 3 hours, Ajax scene was 8 hours. The Cubo prism model is available here. For comparison, here is a proper rendering by luxrender. Dispersion in the glass is computed using Cauchy’s equation with dense flint glass (SF10) coefficients. With this spectral filtering I have to take more samples to eliminate the chromatic noise, but the result is consistent with the non-spectral result, provided there is no wavelength dependent reflection such as dispersion. Finally, the cubo prism image and the last batch of sphere BRDF tests use subpixel sampling (similar to what’s done in smallpt).
Start-up guide for FLARToolkit Required - Adobe Flash CS3 or later - FLARToolKit - Papervision3D (rev. 817 or later) - Webcam - Printed marker & marker data Download - source of FLARToolKit Let's get started! If you are familiar using Papervision3D, this FLARToolKit will be easy to control. Sample source code You ONLY need to understand how SimpleCube.as works. line 24: Initialize FLARToolKit. line 27: Once init call is successfully over, this function is called. line 30, 31: These codes discriminate how the marker works fine or not. line 32: As I discribed above, Papervision3D and FLARToolKit have an opposite coordinate system. line 33: Papervision3D normally "addChild" Scene3D, FLARToolKit needs to "addChild" a special node as it controls 3D object following the marker. line 44, 45: Now let's play with "Pink Cube" on the marker. line 46: The Cube is based on the center/core(=zero point). Now the time to play FLARToolKit! Here we go! see? See, this is easy!!
Pane - a ray tracer by Kevin Beason This is the project page for Pane, a physically based renderer (global illumination ray tracer). Pane is a work in progress. See below for the latest images. Basic features are: Photon mapping and Monte-Carlo path tracing Reads Inventor / VRML 1.0 files Octree-R ray-triangle intersection acceleration HDR Image based lighting, depth of field, irradiance caching, glare, bump-mapping, texture-mapping, animation support, etc. Contents Acknowledgements Thank you: David Banks my graduate advisor and mentor, for teaching and support Josh Grant for the original idea of using Inventor to read the scene file. I would also like to thank the following students at other universities who have also implemented Photon Mapping, and whose websites were inspiring: Other inspiring renderers: Features implemented so far Download Source code Images Below are images rendered with Pane, in reverse chronological order. Don't forget to look at more images on Page 2. Bibliography James Arvo. D. Per H. I. Andrew S. A. T. G.
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