I’m fascinated by the possibilities behind copying long curves in giant arrays, to create wavy surfaces that can simulate water, sand, cloth, etc. I haven’t moved beyond arraying down a straight line yet, but already find the simplest shapes beautiful when repeated 100x in plain-old default style. Here’s a simple speaker-skin texture I made using a single-piece solid grill that took my poor little i7 a minute to trim into a disc, ha.
At first I trimmed the wrong way around.
Vol 2: two obvious variations to finish this one. arrays of the trim stretched upward and deepening of the disc. bit dizzying.
Modeling studded glass this past week to learn my way around curviloft, but in the end couldn’t get this shape out of curviloft anyway! Making a cut shape for solid tools was proving more complex than it seemed on the face, so I switched to pure native tools - every face of the sphere built as components in array with very little evil “thinking” required. Resulted in a very pretty, soap-ish “texture”. (Still curviloft for the sides and neck of the middle shape.)
the process
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