BaguaKicksAss

The guy pissing blood was doing his iron vest stuff.

I was curious, not seen the turtle breathing done that way before. (though I'd not seen the Bruce Frantzis version before either). Neat.

I meant... by other people... who's teachings aren't known for damaging people.... I was trying to be polite...

Dorian, you must have found some better videos too? OK I'm curious, how do the Chia methods in the vids above direct and compress energy in the ldt?

Bruce Frantzis has something he calls turtle breathing as well. I was confused for a bit, until I realized that there are a few different things that people call turtle breathing .

Funky. Does he refer to this as turtle breathing?

It's covered in his neigong book. Might also be in his CMQT vol 4 book; might also be in his martial arts and Bagua books...

Is turtle breathing covered in any books besides JAJ?

I'm trying to figure out how to get a flat image (say a Bagua for example) into a raised (few mm) depth image, but with a backing to it, instead of just raised lines in the air. Though I need to do it with one of the free softwares (well or one I can find uhm easily heh) . I'd tried Blender and 123D, but can't seem to figure out how to get my *own* artwork inserted into there. I tried autocad awhile back and unfortunately that is way to far above my skillset; I need something much easier. Photoshop doesn't seem to save in any of the formats I need. I have also tried artcam, but it only saves in its own format . I need the files in STL, OBJ, X3D, DAE, Collada, or WRL. Suggestions?

I have a few images of people and animals which aren't in 3D yet, they just look 3D from the front... might use that function to 3D them...

Solved! Actually I didn't even need to download ANY of the 5 different types of software I did *sigh*, I only needed to make the design have a grey background (arg!). Now to figure out a quick way to grey background the round image, but not the rest of the square it sits in.... for 200 images . That only took a full day of figuring out... I guess not too bad as it is something I will be using a lot, and for years to come.

You already posted this.

OK photoshop CS5, here we go.... . Wish me luck. There is a 3D tab, which just wasn't present on the old FREE cs2 version! (PS anyone who wants free photoshop all the old versions are free on the adobe site you look around a bit).

It didn't work, didn't leave me with a background, just left me with raised lines in the air ;(.

I can't do 3D in photoshop I'd need to upgrade to a newer version of photoshop to do this... which I might just do... I tried autocad, too confusing ;(.

I might need to get some new software. Suggestions anyone?

How do I get my .jpg over to .obj/x3d?

I never created the images. It would take me a couple of hours to make new ones of each one. Though Photoshop can save in some neat formats. Though none of photoshops formats open up in any 3D software .

CAD software (that I have tried so far) doesn't open any of those file formats though . If it did I would already be ready to go since I have photoshop which can save my images in many different formats...

I can save them as any type of image, since I have photoshop (an old version though). I've PMed you with my use .

They are far from simple designs . The Bagua was one example, but the least complex of them all. Also I have 200 of them. They would take at least a couple of hours each to redraw.... with modern technology I seriously shouldn't have to do this, since well, people take your images and make them into 3D all the time! So I'm sure there is some software that helps out a bit.... .

I can't find any 3D software, which produces any of the formats listed above, which will start off with my JPGs. I don't want to redraw all 200 . OK googling extrusion .

Thank you! I'm also pestering folks on 3D printing forums heh. You would think stuff like this would be automated "raise lines/embos" "make into flat 3mm high 3D" .

I unfortunately can only use programs which save files in the extensions listed above . Well that and it has to be true 3D... I can emboss in photoshop, but that doesn't cut it...

Only if you ALSO open a report discussion thread about it... .