Well I have failed miserably. Looking forward to explanation.
Ray
We appear to have tackled it very much the same way Ernie.
As folks seem to want to know how I went about it:
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Last edited by Egg Bramhill; 29 June 2023 at 03:20 AM. Reason: Forgot the xar file
Egg
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Yes, I drew it like that too.
First I drew a segment, then doubled it and filled in the gradients.
Finally the shadows. That's it.
Here is my Xara-File to help understand what i did.
Aaron Draplin Design.xar
Yes Ernie great.
Here's an alternative with a ruffle3 bevel applied:
Egg
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This is my solution to the problem, unlike Egg I built the curved piece of the design in a completely different way and repeated it around the reference center by rotating it by an angle equal to 360/7 (set in snap mode to be as precise as possible).
draplin_star_talkgraphic.xar
Marco.
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