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Our congratulations go to @NP5 for his detailed and realistic wooden cart. You need to look at his wireframe to see how many details he has put into the model. The way he presented the scene is also a nice detail. It completes the overall mood of the composition.
Thank you all!
If interested here is the video I used as the main reference. Very hard to find old paintings or manuscripts with them in. If you read some of the comments apparently the maker of this ‘channel’ is actually a very well off co-founder of a major game company, presumably doing it as an interest.
Clearly, as I mentioned in the entry post I need to do some bending and un-straightening of some of my parts yet. So far I have not added the rawhide ties he had on his, I am unconvinced of their likely use being as they fail in the wet. Simple joints I believe would be more probable. Or possibly both. Doubtless, there were thousands of variations they were not factory made!
There is this Bruegel with lots! Somewhat different, bigger more refined narrower wheels probably related to the more urban situation? Including the use to move barrels to the local pub!
Why are carriage wheels dished? Took more research to discover, that it is to counter sideways stress on roads with a side tilt, and probably the effect of turning. Wheels can break sideways as their weak point. The dishing means the struts go vertically down onto the rims when some degree of side tilt is acting on them
It really is an awesome model you’ve made there. Nice work, man. I’m also quite impressed by the foliage you’ve got it sitting in. Very natural looking grass and flowers!
It’s mathematical.
A wheel can only run over an obstacle 1/4 of the height (diameter) of the wheel.
One-meter wheel diameter can overcome less than 0.25 meters of rock height, or stone height.
Thanks Tyger, The foliage is all geometry node based scattering. Same basic process as using objects on particle hairs, just a new way of controlling the instances. Low poly plants with alpha images on low poly shapes for the leaves and flowers. Took all images used myself. I must work up various other plants I took images of. Increase the biodiversity!
Now you say it that makes sense on the size. Presumably also smoother ride over smaller ruts or cobbles. Perhaps it was just the local way there and then too. Larger diameter and thinner like that would be more at risk of side force breakage though.
The bigger they are, the heavier they will become. So they became thinner. "Design follows functionality. But nowadays, with all these electronic ‘smart’ gadgets it’s becoming less and less common sense … "
I’ve just created “flowering-plants”
