Tippling Rock <> Platonic Solids in (3D) <> GEEK Art (3D)

Tippling Rock Scan 3D

Armed with an iPad Pro with LiDAR and the scaniverse app, I scanned Tippling Rock. First I tried hi-res. I did get a fraction for a hi-res "glue" in meshlab. I could not quite get it to work. I made a large scale scan as a back up and that is what you see here. Why is it Tippling Rock?


Model created by Scaniverse, geometry + texture (full page)
Geometry of the assembled rock. (full page)

image HighResJoin.png
HighResJoin High Resh Join
image TipplingRock2.png
Tippling Rock 2 Tippling Rock 2 Tippling Rock 2

drill holes for "feathers and wedges" rock splitting technique

If you want to see the hi-res geometry join or the lower-res textured geometry, download it and load it into meshlab

Ed Kreitsak, a wizened old man proposed making a model and seeing how Tippling Rock fits back together. He was my neighbor and passed on a bit of lore.

In meshlab, Import 2 meshes. Click Align tool. Select one mesh for the Glue Here Mesh. Click the other mesh in the layers tab and select Point Based Gluing.

2024-08-10 jch.com/tipplingrock/Scan3D <> jch