creating low-res polygons

I enjoy the style of low-res polygons like this elephant for example. I was wondering if there was a way to turn, for example, a sphere/cube/cat/dog/house into a low-res version of itself. Like if this elephant used to be smooth elephant. Perhaps it would be a mesh conversion? It's basically the 3D modeling version of pixelating in photoshop.

Also this tree: Let me know if you can help! Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by WT4 on November 18, 2014 at 11:49pm

Yes there is. Just use a meshing program some of which are free and specify the minimum edge size that you want to use.

Permalink Reply by Eric Lawler on November 19, 2014 at 3:45am

Thanks WT4, do you mean a program like autodesk's meshmixer? Would you have any other suggestions?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 19, 2014 at 3:46am

Interesting, I was looking at the same problem last week but couldn't figure out how to do it in Rhino.

(all images below made by others)

I wonder if some of these are drawn by hand though in a program like illustrator

Permalink Reply by Eric Lawler on November 19, 2014 at 4:07am

Yes exactly that! I'm sure a lot of them are drawn in illustrator. At least the ones you posted. I agree, really interesting! however I've seen low-res trees like the ones I posted up for 3D download for modeling software like 3dsmax and rhino. I was thinking it would be a sort of mesh editor, much like weaverbird or something...

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on November 19, 2014 at 3:32pm

What about R5's "reduce mesh" command.

Permalink Reply by Daniel González Abalde on November 19, 2014 at 4:16am

And you can also use the meshMachine component of Kangaroo.

Permalink Reply by Eric Lawler on November 19, 2014 at 4:46am

thanks daniel! the first image gave a satisfactory result. where did you get that second image? I'd like to see if I could get a better image of the definition used.

Permalink Reply by Daniel González Abalde on November 19, 2014 at 4:54am

The cluster containing the def. of the first image.

The SuperBBox cluster is only a boundingBox scaling with factor 1.2.
I use anemone to homogenize the distance between the points.

Permalink Reply by Eric Lawler on November 19, 2014 at 5:14am

great, thanks! so a few more questions: where did you get the 'lowpolymesh' component?

also I've constructed all I can without the 'lowpolymesh' but i've come across an error. any reason as to why the voronoi is failing?

Permalink Reply by Daniel González Abalde on November 19, 2014 at 5:33am

The LowPolyMesh containing the def. of the first picture above, and I did.
It is possible that Voronoi3d fail for many reasons: points duplicates, insufficiently large box, or receive any null elements...
If you want to attach your ghFile to take a look.

Permalink Reply by LucasDeSordi on July 8, 2015 at 2:10pm