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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

I found a nifty line art drawing of the 924 last week. Click the image to grab the full size version. Thought this might be useful for playing around with different paint schemes (even though it's a Euro version

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I'm still looking for one for the 944. It would also cool to have frontal, rear, front 3/4, rear 3/4, and overhead line art renditions, but beggars can't be choosers I guess.
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morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9102 Location: Romania

yea well that doesnt look right to me

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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

Judging by this quick study in photo shop, I'd say it's pretty darn close, especially when you take into account the effects of perspective and parallax distortion based on the position of the photographer.

In the top image, the camera angle is obviously lower and front biased, so the perspective / parallax distortion results in the car looking shorter than it would be if the camera lens were exactly centered at the midpoint of the cars maximum height. Likewise, with the lower image, the camera angle is somewhat higher, and also biased to the rear, accounting for why the front of the car appears longer. The artist of the line drawing may have been working from a photograph as well, so depending upon how carefully the original subject was controlled during photography, it could account for some aberration in the final rendering. Unless the artist had the benefit of an engineering drawing from which to derive the simplified line art.

By the way, when's the last time you saw a carefully photographed 924 directly from side view? I searched thru thousands of my images, and could only come up with maybe 7 or 8, of which these were the two most suitable subjects. So your perception could be colored by the predominance of images taken from 3/4 angle, which of course exaggerates or de-emphasizes different proportions of the car.

Anyway, it's close enough for my purposes...
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tuurbo · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:58 am Post subject:

The line art is a great idea for paint jobs.

I need one that shows the car from above, on an angle. The reason is that I want to test out how a two tone would look with a Chip Foose type of paint job.
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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

One of my winter projects is going to be to take my white 924S along with a nice step ladder and my camera rig somewhere where I can find a nice even dark background and shoot it scientifically from all angles. Once that is done, I plan to take the photos into Photoshop and create some "mask" layers with some of the common 924 schemes (i.e. factory two tone, the D-prod angle swoop like on Vaughans car, etc.). The layer masks will allow you to colorize the car with different color combinations. Also, with some careful editing, some of the auto-features in Photoshop will allow you to convert it into a line drawing. The white car should be perfect for this purpose, if I can only find a good location.
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Paul · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject:

What do you do for a living? You seem to have way too much surfing time....
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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

924guy · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

OOOOhhhhhh! Where'd you get that?!?!? Any chance you can try re-doing the photograph? I can give you some tips that should help get it perfectly square to the camera...
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pocketscience · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject:

Flatbed scanner??
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924guy · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

found it in my pictures folder, no idea where it came from.. i may have others though on a different pc.. i will look...
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morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9102 Location: Romania

like i said...it looks too fat for a side view. but yea its similar

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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

It's pretty much dead on from the dealer-provided training brochure.
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alexvex · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:02 am Post subject:

Here you guys go

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ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

Alex, do you have that as an original? I wouldn't mind taking a high res scan of it this weekend if you can bring it with you...
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