bounty stern

Dave Stevens (Lumberyard) · Dec 1, 2024

it comes down to the process of going from raster to vector the goal here is to take the Bounty drawing by Harold Hahn and create a printable 3D file of the stern.
Raster images are made up of a bunch of tiny pixels and are great photographs or highly detailed artwork. Vector images are made from mathematical paths and are ideal for drawings or computer-generated images.

a raster image

a vector file looks like this

lets zoom in this is what you see

this is a vector image and no matter how far i zoon in it is still sharp lines which can now be used as a tool path.

back in the day the width of a fine sharp pencil was the limit in CAD i can split that a dozen times.

Dave Stevens (Lumberyard) · Dec 1, 2024

another powerful tool Harold did not have back when he was drawing his plans was GOOGLE which can be a blessing and a curse, and this is why.

Chatter in the ship modeling community like to talk about details and historically accuracy. both of those are just generalizations, like the saying goes "art is whatever the artist says it is" accuracy is as far as my research carried me.

note here at the corners of the stern on Hahn's drawings, notice something missing?

i see large scrolls who is right? and if this is going to be a file for 3D printing Hahn's bounty do i add the scrolls or stay true to the Harold Hahn plans?