Subject: Re: 3d sea-shell
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 00:40:11 +1000 (EST)
From: Nikola Vukovljak <nvukovlj@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>

On Mon, 30 May 1994, Jeremy White wrote:

> On Mon, 30 May 1994, PC386 studenti n.2 wrote:
> 
> > /      Hello evrywhere,
> > ||              can anybody explain me how make 3d sea-shell in Imagine?
> 

Here's an easy way, although I can't take credit for it as a brilliant 
artist, Louis Markoya (whatever happened to him ?) wrote this tutorial  a 
few years ago in Amiga World.

Add a primitive tube. Accept the defaults. Go into pick points mode and 
delete the top row of points.

Then, move the axis(only)  by 50 units in X direction only. Then scale the 
object in x by 1.5x.

Extrude the object as following. To length 1-10 (or more, it is up to you).
No. of sections - 36. Y-rotation 720 (or more), X scaling - .1.

This should give you the right shape. To make it 'bent' use Conform to 
Sphere option. 

Hope this helps. Sometimes, the tools in Imagine can be used very 
differently to the way they were designed.

Nik.
nvukovlj@extro.ucc.su.oz.au



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