Perpetual Motion Machine: The real-life version of M.C.Escher's Waterfall

Step 17 6.1 Texture Mapping: flume walls

Construction finished, but decoration is also an essential part to reestablish the marvelous scene of Waterfall.

In order to consistent the appearance with Waterfall, we plan to copy the original texture to the model.

To keep our plan simple enough, we use Photoshop instead of unstable hand painting work. Firstly pick out the texture pieces in the original work. Then adjust size and perspective of the chosen piece. Finally print the texture out on Water Resist Vinyl.
Since foreground and background pictures are not in close contact with the model, print them on A4 paper is convenient and economical.

Build a new file. Setup units to centimeter; choose the 90 X 60 size.
Use bricks on the wall as the fill pattern, notice to intercept as more bricks as possible and fix irregular flaws may appear.
Draw reference lines following Google Sketchup’s dimension analyze.
Draw outline of walls according to the reference line.
Fill outlines with the fill pattern set in step2. As the layers of brick in Waterfall are all the same, fill pattern’s size could be easily adjusted. It’s worth noting that the brick thickness on pillar base and wall are not the same, this could be helpful to cause visual deception.
Draw some light grey texture for side face of the mill.
Make some additional copies in the spare space in case need backup.
Before printing the file, change the picture in to grayscale mode to prevent color distortion. Texture picture for download( file Hyperlink