
Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
Work in progress of 3D Chinese cursive character (Hanzi) Li3 (inside, short distance [about 500 m]) in marble ("botticino")


Last edited by rosros on Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:43 pm, edited 4 times in total.
Re: Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
A more language-oriented version (work in progress)

LARGE IMAGE:
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2008/056/a/a/LI3_GRAD_by_rosros_3.png

LARGE IMAGE:
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2008/056/a/a/LI3_GRAD_by_rosros_3.png
Last edited by rosros on Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:10 am, edited 3 times in total.
Re: Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
What do you think microUgly?
Re: Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
I seen this post but didn't make a comment because the symbols don't mean anything to me so it didn't feel right to comment
But I like the raised effect. If you're going for a carved stone effect I would make the shadow and hilights sharper. I would also change the blend mode of the highlight so to something that increases the brightness of the marble rather than makes it white.

Re: Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
The meaning of the words:
Top: Optics
Bottom left: Curves
Bottom right:
The small ones: kaishu (regular script), a form of Chinese calligraphy.
The large one has many meanings: boundary, territory, realm, side, etc.
As for my comment: it's really too abstract for me. I don't see how you derived that symbol from the character. Over-all, the symbol is a bit too plain, but the shading is nice.
Top: Optics
Bottom left: Curves
Bottom right:
The small ones: kaishu (regular script), a form of Chinese calligraphy.
The large one has many meanings: boundary, territory, realm, side, etc.
As for my comment: it's really too abstract for me. I don't see how you derived that symbol from the character. Over-all, the symbol is a bit too plain, but the shading is nice.
Every Inkscape work of mine is an experiment.
Re: Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
Thank you for checking the meaning of the words (they are intended as descriptive labels).
I selected the character (on bottom left of the marble version) from the tables of "Read About China in Cursive Script by Chang Yi-nan "
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/pzlabs/sets/709578/), I then produced a curved version made of a single line (the white line); for the 3D version I joined the (two) end nodes with a (curved) segment and filled it (the choice of what to fill is left to Inkscape ... ), to enhance it in a 3D view I also shrinked it a bit. Since cursive versions of hanzi have been also a base for the current (GB) simplification (haven't they?) the "plain" look is intended. The curved version of the hanzi is an idea
for a font. What do you think?
I selected the character (on bottom left of the marble version) from the tables of "Read About China in Cursive Script by Chang Yi-nan "
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/pzlabs/sets/709578/), I then produced a curved version made of a single line (the white line); for the 3D version I joined the (two) end nodes with a (curved) segment and filled it (the choice of what to fill is left to Inkscape ... ), to enhance it in a 3D view I also shrinked it a bit. Since cursive versions of hanzi have been also a base for the current (GB) simplification (haven't they?) the "plain" look is intended. The curved version of the hanzi is an idea

Last edited by rosros on Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:00 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
Thanks microugly! Here are two versions:
________________ROUNDED_____________VS._____________SEMIFLAT______________

Respective large images:
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs29/f/2008/058/e/3/LI3_marble_rounded_by_rosros_3.png
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/058/5/6/568f04c54fa2e042.png
________________ROUNDED_____________VS._____________SEMIFLAT______________


Respective large images:
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs29/f/2008/058/e/3/LI3_marble_rounded_by_rosros_3.png
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/058/5/6/568f04c54fa2e042.png
Re: Chinese Modern Cursive Characters (Jincao)
Very effective. I think the shadow could be a litle lighter on the semiflat one. I really like the effect on the smaller text.