Hi all,
Looking for suggestions on how to achieve the concave details on the Noguchi and Giacometti sculptures below. I am trying to get something similar in limestone, and want the subtlety/shallowness of the circle while maintaining the hard edge around it. I'm new to sculpting and always looking for new methods. would love to hear how you might do this. Thanks.
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My daughter and I independently both thought of an idea where a pillow is built to have a more concave shape, made to fit more closely the natural form of the body. It would have more shape and support for the neck and around the head, while having a dip and less support right where the head goes.
What are your thoughts?
Newbie here looking to see if there are any companies that sell blanks with the similar OG Shape & Mellow Concave as Baker.
I am not looking to spend seventy dollars on a board with a graphic that is not meant to last me.
Any information or guidance would be greatly appreciated 🙏
Imagine everyone has a shield in front of their heart, some people have a convex shield and some have a concaved shield (look up an image of concave and convex). Now imagine arrows shooting at the shields, these arrows are input from the world, situations and interactions. To me it seems like people who suffered abuse and as a result have low self-esteem/self confidence, have a concaved shield. Almost like your self esteem/self protection has collapsed or caved in. People who have an overbearing, narcissistic, arrogant or overly confident personality type have the convex shape. Even things that are their fault don't make them feel guilty, which in a sense is self protective. Convex is reflective while concave is open and exposed. The reason I thought this is because people who have suffered gaslighting, scapegoating and other abuses, tend to blame themselves for everything. Perhaps constantly worrying if someone close to them is angry at them. I have basically described the psychological mechanism of a scapegoat, someone who has been psychologically conditioned to blame themselves. Anyone who feels they suffer from this concaved psychological style, I believe, could benefit from trying to absorb less responsibility/blame and trying to be more like a reflective shield. Instead of thinking "Was that argument my fault?", try, "Everyone disagrees, not everything is my fault for god's sake". I just realised, personally, I take a lot of blame for arguments and disagreements that are the responsibility of both parties not JUST me. I even take blame for when people are rude to ME, imagine that! Basically the gist of what I'm saying is we can learn from the narcissistic monsters and be less selfless, blame ourselves less, take less responsibility and be less of a "good person". Lets be a "good person" to ourselves for once!
I'm working on a project that involves 3d-printed joints (generated based on input) that are created using convex hull methods then shaving away at the connections. The result is a concave polyhedron with no smooth curves. This link is an example of a single joint at different orientations.
I want to find the ideal bed for the joints, which to my understanding will involve creating a plane intersecting one or more outer vertices on an entire "side" of the joint, then finding the volume between the polyhedron and the plane, and iteratively finding the "side" with the smallest volume. Then outcroppings can be made on some faces of the joint so that they reach the plane.
Am I overthinking this or is there an easier way? The only other idea that came to mind was creating a bounding box from several different starting vertices and iteratively finding the volume created by each side of the box and where vectors normal to the side intersect the joint. I just wasn't sure if this led to a nearly ideal solution and it was looking pretty memory intensive.
Any feedback appreciated!
Ive been skating a polar nick boserio memory palace 8.0 for a while and it is my favorite board I’ve ever had. I was looking to buy the Oskar Rozenberg Tribal Chief 8.0 deck, but I was wondering are they the same shape? Not only shape but do they have the same nose and tail angle/ size? Same wheelbase? I understand they come from the same factory as other boards, but are they really all the same board but with different graphics?
So every board on the website has a shape code (e.g "170") and a concave code (e.g "K15"... but I can't find any table with an explanation of what these codes mean.
Anyone know of a resource with this info available?
I'm in the market for my first mechanical keyboard and am having trouble with the concave shape of the board. I game a decent amount and am coming from my laptop where all the buttons are at a even level making it easy to hit the x/c/v/b keys with my thumb. I got a redragon k580 pro and due to the keyboard having a concave shape I am unable to hit those same keys with my thumb without also triggering the space bar. Are there any recommended keyboards that don't have that shape to them and are more than less flat? It may be a taboo on this sub but I got the Razer Ornata v2 and I enjoy the layout of that one more but dislike it for other reasons. Any help is appreciated there's so many keyboards out there it can be a little overwhelming.
In some cases, I find it easier to generate shapes in ways that leaves holes in them, or need to create a "mask" for a part which has holes in it. For a convex shape, it's easy to just do a hull(), but how to do it for a concave shape?
