confucius say: think backwards to make forward step

Come on you can do better than that!

lao tse say: try "sweep 2 rails" instead...

I just tried this. I have completely forgotten how to draw in rhinko now and every time I move around my view boxes flicker.

lao tse say- there is a yin and yang aspect of every line u mediate before the enlightment comes...

hahah, what a great thread..
my suggestion...just draw 5 point curve and rotate twice in the y and zloft...duh

all right lets see it! Sweep two rails?? I don't think so try again!!!
ff33 might have something. Maybe......

New rule> Must post result if you post a text solution.

Does it have to hollow on the inside?

got it. 30 minutes. :D

for a down and dirty dimpled cone:
pushed in circular rail
line to apex
sweep
mirror

i cant see that taking more than 60 seconds.
multiple lines to apex for smoothing, still cant be more than a minute.

down n dirty

for elegance, perhaps 30 min.

simply mirroring it won't give you the right connections. mine is a single surface.

Mmmmm....cookie.

yes hollow inside. After all , where would you place the fortune?. Evan not bad ! but , a little crinkle in the center. Should be a a simple fast.
Pretty close .

Evan , What steps did you take?

the crinkle makes it more realistic!



here are the input curves, and what it looks like if i left loft on 'do not simplify'. the image above was done w/ loft set to rebuild w/ 20 pts.

So far I think Evan is the winner unless . Someone else comes delivers something better!

do you have a cleaner strategy? (one problem w/ mine is the central spine is still a loop - so there's a small hole there that shouldn't be).

this was fun.

I will post in a couple days . Just wanted to give others a chance first.

oops, sorry did not mean to do that.

You can do it in about 3 minutes with a sweep1. But I guess that's no fun?

you could also take a circular planar surface and fold it up with cageedit in about a minute... but that's cheating.

::slaps forehead::

after thinking about this all day, i finally got it. so easy.

what's next? BRING IT ON!

That"s it you did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!!! We have a winner!!!!!!!! ha,ha, lol

it's the next serpentine pavilion. genius

How quickly can anyone model a rhino, in Rhino?

Haha Great looking fortune cookie Evan.