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From: bemfarmer
Pineapple finial...
From: bemfarmer
A preliminary idea:
Google of "pineapple and fibonacci" shows the pattern to be a grid of roughly hexagons, in a tapered "cylinder", which has 3 different lines of hexagons, which
Would be the bases of the quiotes leaves.
Create a core profile, revolve it, and flow a plane of hex grid onto the ovoid.
Add on the leaves.
- Brian
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Finema, I'd probably focus on one leaf at a time and start with a flat pattern and bend it into shape using the Flow command. I'll see about making an example later today.
- Michael
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Finema, so something like this - a 2D leaf in the top view:
Draw a line down the center of the leaf, and in a side view draw a bendy curve like this:
Select the leaf and run the Transform > Deform > Flow command, pick the center line as the base curve and the bendy curve as the target, that will make a result like this:
Repeat with some variations on the bendy curve, then rotate them:
- Michael
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From: bemfarmer
The blue agave core has leaf bases which each look like a rhombus (squished square), not a hexagon.
Some of the upper leaves of the core could be left attached to the upper portion of the core. The lower 3/4 of the core would be grasp-able, so as to enable easy removal of the attached ground glass stopper ("cork").
-Brian
From: bemfarmer
Above the ground glass "cork" could be a solid frustrum cone, big side up, with a representation of leaves in bas relief around the frustum, kind of like a crown. This would be grasp-able, and manufacturable, and safer than a bunch of breakable glass shard leaves, with less liability.
- Brian
From: Metin (METIN_SEVEN)
As an alternative to Michael's Flow method for creating the curves leaf shape, you could also Boolean intersect the leaf shape and a curve, like this:
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