Mike Clemens
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Here are some of my AP inspired drawings from the last couple years. I send one to Roland once in a while to humor him. He knows I'm a lost cause. The originals are all huge (like 1600-2000 pixels wide) cant post them due to size limits.
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Mike Clemens
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Ah yes, the AP room, where I keep my AP178 f/9 blue tube and my AP180 f/7, the AP180 f/9, and the AP206. Do you like my AP rug? Cookoo! Cookoo!
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Mike Clemens
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Pier based on AP's Mach pier. Made larger, for the larger mount.
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Mike Clemens
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Would you like it in blue?
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Mike Clemens
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Some EDF sitting pretty on the upscaled pier.
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Mike Clemens
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The blue tube AP, revisited in the new millenia.
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Mike Clemens
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This one was my idea for a large AP mount, sitting next to an AP1200. AP went beyond this in a huge way with their AP3600, simply massive!
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Mike Clemens
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I had so many more misc. pictures, but they went the way of the wooly mammoth when my single-point-of-storage philosophy proved unwise.
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PJF
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These are terrific, Mike; very photo-realistic. If you told me before what modelling / rendering package you use for these I'm afraid I've forgotten (meet new friends every day with Alzheimer's!).
One problem with photo-realism is that most people tend to overlook the skill and effort involved in making it look that way. They see reality around them all the time and it just doesn't seem special. Conversely, a gaudy sketch or a quickie "spheres-over-water" 3D piece might garner lots of oohs and aahs because it looks out of the ordinary. Your work would get full appreciation at online 3D graphics sites. It gets extra from me because 3D modelling is a skill that has so far eluded me, much to my aggravation.
You own AP scopes for real, I think; nice to see a healthy obsessive-compulsive interest overspilling into the fantasy realm. 
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Peter
10x50 binocs
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daev
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Seconds on Peter's comments. I've been using 3DStudioMax for over 10 years now and those images are beautifully modeled and rendered.
So what software are you using?
dave
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"Yes, I know it's flat here. When the seeing is good you can stand on your toes and see Chicago...."
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Mike Clemens
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Thanks guys. These are 3DSMax. I started with it back in 1991? 1992? with 3D Studio 3 doing rendering for a medical robotics company. 3D Studio 4 was when I really fell in love with the product. It's been on again and way-mostly-off-again since then, relishing any opportunity to do it for a living. I like to experiment with it still with Mental Ray and particularly V-ray.
I remember dreaming back in the early 90's about being able to afford one of those Sanyo? frame animation VCR's which you could drop an animation from 3D Studio with. Now we've got the world at our fingertips for cheaper than ever (outside of the graphics software), dropping frames direct to AVI and then straight onto DVD. The only missing piece for me is a rendering farm of networked quad-core boxes.
Mike
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Mike Clemens
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Some more pics of the concept mount
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Mike Clemens
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maybe one more
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Mike Clemens
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frontus mountificus
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Mike Clemens
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More misc renderings. If it's not OK to post this many graphics may the moderators wield their mighty powers upon these posts. This (to me) is my most realistic pic ever:
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Mike Clemens
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I modeled the TMB175 I built before hand.
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Mike Clemens
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Also the TMB152 before hand.
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Mike Clemens
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But mostly I love to copy AP stuff : )
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Mike Clemens
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Loc: Wasilla, Alaska 61N
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Do I have another? Maybe 50... get a hobby eh? Remember the night sky goes bye bye in Alaska for several months per year. It's best to lock oneself inside chained to a computer during these months to avoid mosquito bites and undue photon exposure.
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Mike Clemens
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Some pretty grossly RA-imbalanced scopes eh? Shame on me for not fixing it at the time.
So what can I say? I LOVE ASTRO-PHYSICS. Even if its cloudy I can sit and stare at my AP1200 mount and derive pleasure from the hard work Roland put into design and aesthetics. (No, I do not own an AP scope, hopefully one day.) AP produces equipment that is truly modern art. This following picture to me says a lot of it - the beauty of their designs blows me away every time I look at them. I'm not even talking about the quality of the optics wavefront, their glass quality, the coatings, the tracking accuracy of their mounts. You throw THAT in the equation and I dont even know how to express it, my drawings fall way short. I'll defer to the title of my thread.
I actually have about 21 AP refractors from the last three decades modeled out. I wanted to make a nice poster of them all but work keeps cutting into my free time.
Best Wishes, Mike
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