That’s insanely good.
I’d never seen that extension before.
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Aaron- I tip my hat to you for soldiering on with a migraine. I’ve only had two of those in my life (well, I assume that’s what they were) and I had to lie down with my eyes closed both times.
Hello, the biggest problem is, is that you made an incorrect assumption concerning the arcs of an ellipse - you assumed that each arc would be identical - unlike a circle, they are not.
If you divide an ellipse into four equal sections (quadrants) - and then divide one of those quadrants into equal sections (arcs) by degree, you’ll see that in fact - each of the arcs within the quadrant of the ellipse is both different in size and shape.
In order to accurately model within the ellipse shown, you’d have to independently model 18 of these arcs - and then copy and mirror to get a perfect result - that is, a 72 section ellipse.
Additionally - the outer and inner faces of each initially modeled section (all 18) would have to be curved - and not straight.
Interesting viewing though - I really enjoyed it… and hopefully, I’ll make it to the next live stream.
Well after hearing that Aaron had some migraine problems, and considering that taking my “simple” idea of just modelling one cross section and duplicating it to form an ellipse was actually very difficult, I decided to to try for myself. It took much more than two hours!
I used the tocomponents plugin shown above (and then much editing) it is awesome, but has a few quirks which caused some problems. I also added details like the Emperor’s platform, the end gates, the awning and external entrances. I left the many internal tunnels intact, but did not add any inter-level stairwells.
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Great job well done. So how long did it take you?
Off the top of my head at least 20 hours. But a lot of time was lost getting to grips with tocomponents and then adding the “extras” and succumbing to my OCD. I also found out that there is no exact formula for the circumference of an ellipse, which by coincidence was the subject of a Stand up Maths video a couple of days ago.
I’ve posted my model onto the warehouse under “Roman Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre)”. It’s 14MB even using components, it went to nearly 47MB if I exploded them all into a single part.