Hi Elise, here some genus 2 experiments I made in the early SubD days. Very few mesh faces, offset to solid - fast editing and still accurate. Just for inspiration…
idk i just love such bubbly shapes.
Such a shape cannot be modelled as a single NURBS surface, also not in higher-end NURBS modelling software. You need to model it with multiple surfaces with a suitable patch layout. It looks like you have three symmetries, so you only need to model the object’s primary domain.
Dear @Elise_Coleman what are you actually trying to develop here?
The sketch is extremely crude, but it looks like you would use 3 or 5 surfaces for the primary domain, and 5 tangent continuity enforcement surfaces to ensure their reciprocal curvature continuity after mirroring.
Sub-d is perfect for such things, like Sergio pointed out above, and far easier and quicker to modify.
Here are two quick hacks at it- The subd version is way less painful and far easier to modify.
the nurbs topology works, but the curves need a lot of refinement.
fillsrf, which I was hoping to put to work here seems badly broken in the latest v9wip
I’ll try again when it regains it’s senses.
doubleT.3dm (1.1 MB)
