Looks like you got that off the PBS Kids show Word World, where everything is made out of words. Now you need to make Duck, Pig, Frog and Sheep, out of words and you will have a collection.
@musica25 The first question was what the symmetry of the object would be, and so what shape the tile would be. Making the word out of a skinny triangle made the most sense, so it would be readable on one line. Then I drew the letters on a flat Euclidean triangle, experimenting with how they would fit. Next, take the 2D design into my 3D program and project the pattern onto the sphere. This distorts everything, so it required lots of fiddling to get the letters looking good in the final design.
@henryseg Thank you! Very clever process! So after you translate the pattern in 3d, do you sort of extrude what you have? Then the cross sections of lines are rectangular? What is your preferred modeling program?
@musica25 I use Rhinoceros 3d. It has a "Pipe" command, which takes a curve in space and makes a tube of a specified radius around it. I made the design using curves, and at the final stage used the Pipe command. The cross sections are circular.
@lucaselviserickson People have done that kind of maze thing (although not with words as far as I know). It would have to have more internal structure for strength if you could thread something through to follow a maze.
The apple!
Xyuuuu 2 days ago
Fantastic.
LostandFoundTravel 3 days ago
Your voice is not unlike Alan Rickman's.
Flashtoorev 5 days ago
Looks like you got that off the PBS Kids show Word World, where everything is made out of words. Now you need to make Duck, Pig, Frog and Sheep, out of words and you will have a collection.
HyperactiveHandfull 2 weeks ago
@HyperactiveHandfull @henryseg Maybe the next step is to do islamic calligraphy.
musica25 2 weeks ago
@HyperactiveHandfull This has given me an idea :)
henryseg 2 weeks ago
Do Gun
RYDERkN 2 weeks ago
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StormRisingOriginal 3 weeks ago
That's so interesting!
How did you figure out the tessellation with the curve calculated in? Could you post the process?
musica25 1 month ago
@musica25 The first question was what the symmetry of the object would be, and so what shape the tile would be. Making the word out of a skinny triangle made the most sense, so it would be readable on one line. Then I drew the letters on a flat Euclidean triangle, experimenting with how they would fit. Next, take the 2D design into my 3D program and project the pattern onto the sphere. This distorts everything, so it required lots of fiddling to get the letters looking good in the final design.
henryseg 1 month ago
@henryseg Thank you! Very clever process! So after you translate the pattern in 3d, do you sort of extrude what you have? Then the cross sections of lines are rectangular? What is your preferred modeling program?
musica25 2 weeks ago
@musica25 I use Rhinoceros 3d. It has a "Pipe" command, which takes a curve in space and makes a tube of a specified radius around it. I made the design using curves, and at the final stage used the Pipe command. The cross sections are circular.
henryseg 2 weeks ago
Thanks Henry!
truthsprite7 1 month ago
I wonder what supercalifragilisticexpialidocious looks like
ryomali 1 month ago 20
@ryomali Nice one!
truthsprite7 1 month ago
@ryomali If you find out, let me know!
henryseg 1 month ago
@henryseg At first I thought you were supposed to put a stick through the sides and use it like a maze
lucaselviserickson 3 weeks ago
@lucaselviserickson People have done that kind of maze thing (although not with words as far as I know). It would have to have more internal structure for strength if you could thread something through to follow a maze.
henryseg 3 weeks ago
OMFG THATS AMAZING
oozinggloop 3 months ago
Cool!
JugglerJeremy 5 months ago