Tapirot's Process Blog

Back when I was younger, I hated flowers but that changed when I graduated high school. Flowers are the main inspiration for the final form of the Surface Design. Most of the interesting designs I found are the ones i found online, like these: I mostly used "Control Point Curve" for this project. My first shape was half an eye shape then I used "Mirror", "Rotate" and "Move" so I can join them together and make two copies and scaled them bigger than the original. I used "Hatch" to add in the lines and color. For the internal pattern, I did it with the "Control Point Curve" and made topographic lines. After all that, I used "Polar Array" to achieve this: I copy and pasted the previous form then I used "Scale" and "Rotate" a few time to achieve the form I want. I almost lost my sanity doing this, not knowing when to stop but eventually I did.  CHALLENGES...

I do remember the basics of Rhino but do I remember ALL of the basics? Nope. The idea behind my castle was an eye. First thing I did was drawing a shape of an eye using "Control Point Curve" and extruded it to which it became the outer wall of the castle. I wanted to make this outer wall thicker but I don't remember how and I wasn't in the Wednesday help time. This castle has 3 walls... ...unnecessary walls. For the inner wall, I used "Torus" in order for the wall to have density. I wasn't really thinking about this and I could've used "Circle", extruded the curve and then un-"capped" it so it would look more like a wall like what I did with the actual castle. But people make mistakes and I just realized it while I'm making this blog. This inner wall has a parabola-ish shaped gate. I used the "Cube" then "Fillet" the edges and used "Cylinders" to complete the look. Now, for...