Five Fold Islamic Design

[ZooHead]

I just recreated a five fold pattern guide and I must say, I did not think I was going to finish this one.
First of all, there are so many elements it hurts my head. Second the video I found had no instruction,
just 31 slides of each element without enough resolution to see fine detail.

I no longer use Circle Splines, instead I use N-gon Splines set
to have the correct number of points, in this case it's 20.
That way I have many snapping points where I need them.

Now we'll see if I made any mistakes when I try to make the actual pattern.

 

[ZooHead]

So far so good, a bunch more to go.

 

[Chris Heath]

Impressive! You're racing along with these patterns Eric. The n-gon idea for snapping is genius.

 

[ZooHead]

Thanks Chris, this one was a real challenge.

 

[ZooHead]

Here's the guide file in case anyone wants to play with it.

 

[misoversaturated]

Here's the guide file in case anyone wants to play with it.

Thanks for that one.
I'm having a hard time trying to apply the wrap modifier because the straight parts aren't tesselated by the sweep mod.
Also the missing denoiser is driving me nuts.
I have switched to Nurbs spline here.

 

[ZooHead]

This file has the guide splines and the pattern as well.
I also made a one piece version, all welded together with no overlapping.

@misoversaturated I tried the same sort of thing and found if I
creased all edges and then added a Subdivision Modifier,
I could then do bendy stuff.

 

[misoversaturated]

added a Subdivision Modifier,
I could then do bendy stuff.

Yep that works until the memory runs out

It's a great pattern and can be applied to all kinds of stuff.

 

[Chris Heath]

Thanks for the sharing the file Eric. I thought I'd try the modifiers to see what works on your model. I haven't really played much with these modifiers before.

The Spherify Modifier flattened the geometry.

The Bend and Twist modifiers worked well. The bend modifier would be useful for a barrel-vaulted roof/ceiling.

The Twist modifier has potential for a hyperbolic paraboloid roof (or perforated Pringles potato chip )

@misoversaturated How did you preserve the geometry when turning it into a dome?

 

[Chris Heath]

@misoversaturated I worked it out after seeing your mention of the wrap modifier. This is really cool. It also rendered quickly (9 seconds on the M2 Mac Studio).