San Francisco with Functional Bicycle
The ‘San Francisco’ digital art piece highlights the diversity of the namesake city, with an emphasis on its iconic bridge, buildings, and people. My objective is to help the viewer of the piece feel as though they are in the city and enjoying the moment. The piece combines pop art, architectural rendition, and 3D models to produce a novel portrayal of one of America’s great cities. The piece is enhanced by depictions of the people and scenery that differentiate San Francisco. A 3D-printed bicycle with moving parts is attached in the art and adds a sense of liveliness to the architectural background. I created both the graphics and the 3D bicycle model to provide an enhanced sense of scene realism. Production of the graphics requires diligence, while the creation of a scalable, miniature bicycle with an operating crank and wheels requires very careful modeling. The combination of detailed graphics and 3D models is unusual, and the creation process for the full piece took me 500 or more hours to accomplish.
The piece shows the De Young museum, Coit tower, the Transamerica tower, the Ferry Building, City Hall, 181 Fremont St, and the Grace Chapel. The art also shows the Golden Gate Bridge and the nearby land. The Golden Gate Bridge is accurately portrayed, including details such as the precise number of stays between the bridge towers. Numerous trees dot the landscape, and include 8 species: Live Oak, Apple, Black Maple, Sycamore, Red Maple, Cherry, Ginkgo, and Monterey Cypress. A diversity of people lines the street, as they do in San Francisco!
I use 2.5D layering without perspective for nearly all the graphics, and I depict each building using an orthographic projection of a single face. As the only exception, I depict the Golden Gate Bridge using a perspective view from the San Francisco shoreline. The variation in views is complementary because of a fantasized transition between bridges and buildings.
Each bicycle with moving wheels, cranks, and sprockets has parts that are separately 3D printed using 60-micron layers. Eight of the parts are separately dyed and polished, including the front wheel, the rear wheel, the handlebars, the seat, the pedal with the crank, the pedal without the crank, the rear sprocket, and the frame. The chain is 3D printed in a flexible plastic. Each bicycle with moving parts is assembled and mounted using 13 pieces of stainless-
The high-quality graphics are printed on Fujiflex mounted to an aluminum composite substrate. This approach provides exceptional clarity and print durability and offers a suitable mounting surface for the 3D models. Retaining the detailed graphics during printing is only made possible by the 610 dpi resolution of Fujiflex. The art is mounted in a thin white wooden float frame.
Dimensions: Height – 24; Width – 42
The ‘San Francisco’ digital art piece highlights the diversity of the namesake city, with an emphasis on its iconic bridge, buildings, and people. My objective is to help the viewer of the piece feel as though they are in the city and enjoying the moment. The piece combines pop art, architectural rendition, and 3D models to produce a novel portrayal of one of America’s great cities. The piece is enhanced by depictions of the people and scenery that differentiate San Francisco. A 3D-printed bicycle with moving parts is attached in the art and adds a sense of liveliness to the architectural background. I created both the graphics and the 3D bicycle model to provide an enhanced sense of scene realism. Production of the graphics requires diligence, while the creation of a scalable, miniature bicycle with an operating crank and wheels requires very careful modeling. The combination of detailed graphics and 3D models is unusual, and the creation process for the full piece took me 500 or more hours to accomplish.
The piece shows the De Young museum, Coit tower, the Transamerica tower, the Ferry Building, City Hall, 181 Fremont St, and the Grace Chapel. The art also shows the Golden Gate Bridge and the nearby land. The Golden Gate Bridge is accurately portrayed, including details such as the precise number of stays between the bridge towers. Numerous trees dot the landscape, and include 8 species: Live Oak, Apple, Black Maple, Sycamore, Red Maple, Cherry, Ginkgo, and Monterey Cypress. A diversity of people lines the street, as they do in San Francisco!
I use 2.5D layering without perspective for nearly all the graphics, and I depict each building using an orthographic projection of a single face. As the only exception, I depict the Golden Gate Bridge using a perspective view from the San Francisco shoreline. The variation in views is complementary because of a fantasized transition between bridges and buildings.
Each bicycle with moving wheels, cranks, and sprockets has parts that are separately 3D printed using 60-micron layers. Eight of the parts are separately dyed and polished, including the front wheel, the rear wheel, the handlebars, the seat, the pedal with the crank, the pedal without the crank, the rear sprocket, and the frame. The chain is 3D printed in a flexible plastic. Each bicycle with moving parts is assembled and mounted using 13 pieces of stainless-
The high-quality graphics are printed on Fujiflex mounted to an aluminum composite substrate. This approach provides exceptional clarity and print durability and offers a suitable mounting surface for the 3D models. Retaining the detailed graphics during printing is only made possible by the 610 dpi resolution of Fujiflex. The art is mounted in a thin white wooden float frame.
Dimensions: Height – 24; Width – 42
The ‘San Francisco’ digital art piece highlights the diversity of the namesake city, with an emphasis on its iconic bridge, buildings, and people. My objective is to help the viewer of the piece feel as though they are in the city and enjoying the moment. The piece combines pop art, architectural rendition, and 3D models to produce a novel portrayal of one of America’s great cities. The piece is enhanced by depictions of the people and scenery that differentiate San Francisco. A 3D-printed bicycle with moving parts is attached in the art and adds a sense of liveliness to the architectural background. I created both the graphics and the 3D bicycle model to provide an enhanced sense of scene realism. Production of the graphics requires diligence, while the creation of a scalable, miniature bicycle with an operating crank and wheels requires very careful modeling. The combination of detailed graphics and 3D models is unusual, and the creation process for the full piece took me 500 or more hours to accomplish.
The piece shows the De Young museum, Coit tower, the Transamerica tower, the Ferry Building, City Hall, 181 Fremont St, and the Grace Chapel. The art also shows the Golden Gate Bridge and the nearby land. The Golden Gate Bridge is accurately portrayed, including details such as the precise number of stays between the bridge towers. Numerous trees dot the landscape, and include 8 species: Live Oak, Apple, Black Maple, Sycamore, Red Maple, Cherry, Ginkgo, and Monterey Cypress. A diversity of people lines the street, as they do in San Francisco!
I use 2.5D layering without perspective for nearly all the graphics, and I depict each building using an orthographic projection of a single face. As the only exception, I depict the Golden Gate Bridge using a perspective view from the San Francisco shoreline. The variation in views is complementary because of a fantasized transition between bridges and buildings.
Each bicycle with moving wheels, cranks, and sprockets has parts that are separately 3D printed using 60-micron layers. Eight of the parts are separately dyed and polished, including the front wheel, the rear wheel, the handlebars, the seat, the pedal with the crank, the pedal without the crank, the rear sprocket, and the frame. The chain is 3D printed in a flexible plastic. Each bicycle with moving parts is assembled and mounted using 13 pieces of stainless-
The high-quality graphics are printed on Fujiflex mounted to an aluminum composite substrate. This approach provides exceptional clarity and print durability and offers a suitable mounting surface for the 3D models. Retaining the detailed graphics during printing is only made possible by the 610 dpi resolution of Fujiflex. The art is mounted in a thin white wooden float frame.
Dimensions: Height – 24; Width – 42