Another great one Ben. If someone had asked me to draw this it would have taken me hours and lots of frustrating trial and error. Most likely I would have created angled planes and cut extruded or “shaved off” the surfaces from a sphere. You have shown such an elegant simple and quick way to do it. Awesome!
Cool video. Funny how sometimes simple geometric shapes can be tough to model. I tried finishing it and struggled to find the easiest most efficient way to fill all the sides with surfaces. I ended doing a planer surface and various circular patterns with skipped instances. I’m curious to see how this pans out.
dave spencer 4:30 am on May 15, 2009 Permalink
Another great one Ben. If someone had asked me to draw this it would have taken me hours and lots of frustrating trial and error. Most likely I would have created angled planes and cut extruded or “shaved off” the surfaces from a sphere. You have shown such an elegant simple and quick way to do it. Awesome!
superpilun 11:39 am on May 15, 2009 Permalink
Cool video. Funny how sometimes simple geometric shapes can be tough to model. I tried finishing it and struggled to find the easiest most efficient way to fill all the sides with surfaces. I ended doing a planer surface and various circular patterns with skipped instances. I’m curious to see how this pans out.
admin 2:34 pm on May 15, 2009 Permalink
You pretty much have it You need 4 surfaces and if done right (I dont do it right in the next video) one revolved pattern around the axis
admin 3:12 pm on May 15, 2009 Permalink
Wow this is the best viewed video yet! nearly 200 views in 24 hours! Cool!