A few more guys and we could assemble a fruit salad :D

Cheers

Great David.
Good fun!
Here is my little effort for this morning.

Brian

David
One of the things I have in Carrara can, I think, produce little round bumps all over the surface--actually in 3d displacement! Guess you have seen those sort of small pumpkin type things.

Any chance of having your 3DM file to try rendering on please?

Brian

Hey David you've done this before!

Great how-to, thanks.

And Brian, your veges have been genetically modified I'm sure

Steve

I am just working from "memory"!

(My wife would say WHAT memory of kitchen stuff!)

TRUE!

Brian

@Brian: I didn´t save the file because it was very basic. The idea was to show like with a poweful tool like MoI you can make pretty things with a few steps (obviously, the final model may be more refined). But I have made it again and I have seen that is not necesary to divide the profiles in two "hemispheres" (less steps) :-)
You get a very nice renders, I´ll be grateful for your render.
@steve: anything like that? :-P

David
I hope you like this. A good bit of fun.
All the rendering in Carrara6Pro.

Brian

Hi David, this picture of the watermelons is great. I assume that's something you did in Photoshop??

Hi Brian,

A quick play with a cabbage leaf.

Just too, too clever mate.

NOW, you must explain how you did it!

Please!

Brian

Hi Michael and Friedns
This is an exercise that I have made approximately a year makes in occasion of Hallowin,
that I have sent to the Forum of the Tspline Program Plug-in of Rhino
The images that you see are renderizzate with Rhino Render
without the application of texture or bump-
This that you see and the resolution of the superfaces ones obtained,that they can be imported in moi from Rhino-
All the built of the shapes has been made in poligonal and translate in Ts-Surface-
For the realization of the organic shape, especially vegetables, as in this case , Plug-in Tspline it is a unparalleled instrument
I augur myself that in future this Plug-in it can in some way
it can be implemented in this program-
best
al
Sorry for my bad english

Hi Brian,

>>NOW, you must explain how you did it! Please!

Very simply for that model

Create a sphere. Then in one of the 2d views draw the curves for the pattern of the veins:



Project those curve to the sphere surface. (you could of course of drawn those directly to surface if wanted in V2)



Sweep circles (or whatever shape you think best) on the surface curves with the "pointy end" option.



Once done, you can then trim the sphere in half, and boolean the main vein.



Using a control point curve, start at one of the intersections then draw using "on surface" snap the shape of the outside of the leaf, then finish the curve at the other intersection (as next pic)



Using the drawn curve, trim the sphere.



Hope I have explained OK.


- Steve

Thanks.

Easier said than done though I think.

Will do/try to emulate today.

Brian

Hi steve:
This picture is real. They develop the watermelons into a box, and obligate them to get this shape. :-)

Hi Brian:
What a nice render. And you have improved the model a lot of! I like the leafs and the stalk very much!
What about a nice render with a helloween theme? :-)

(well I see that speedy has made a nice helloween model yet!)

Good model, and very clever method!
I like very much. The salad is growing :-)

Manz
I hope you enjoy this first, rough, effort with you ideas.

Great fun!

Good, also, to see others enjoying the learning principles involved.

Now it's the Cauliflower and the Broccoli!

Brian

Hi Brian,

I see you have the idea, and the render is looking good.

I have had one last play with this as I wanted to see if I could get a more organic shape. I have not added too much detail, as I want to move on to some projects I wanted to start a while ago.


- Steve

Hi Steve
Progressing from a cabbage leaf to a lettuce leaf!

Must put somemore time into this idea.

Brian

Ok, I couldn't resist ! I had to contribute to this crazy thread :)

Cheers