Mechanical Iris 3.avi

This was harder than you'd imagine...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Mechanical
• Iris
• Bryce
• Wings3D

[nja201]

True: the greater the number of blades also gives a more smooth interior curve to the aperture, which was my aim.

[oEQjet]

you can get a better iris by giving the blades a spiral edge instead of a circular one. You don't need a billion blades. You need 5 or 6 and properly curved edges. It won't be perfect of course, but it will be good.

[Kizkit]

Having just finished making a test prototype for a project I'm working on myself, I can see how that'd be a pain. While this design you have looks quite nice, and verifies that it'd be possible to just use a larger number of thinner blades for a far thinner outer ring, I can see that quickly turning into a large amount of painful, monotonous work the more that're added each time.

[animatigital]

Awesome! I do have some idea how hard that is. I made a much more simple iris for a project, and it was hard enough.