Moebius rings

Playing around with a tutorial on Moebius rings, trying to come up with a more simple way of creating the rings.

The result was modelled in Wings 3D and rendered in Vue 4 Pro. Some contrast and sharpening done in Photoshop.

Playing around with a tutorial on Moebius rings, trying to come up with a more simple way of creating the rings.

The result was modelled in Wings 3D and rendered in Vue 4 Pro. Some contrast and sharpening done in Photoshop.

Hey, these rings look just wonderful Paul... nice modeling and rendering you have going on here [thumbs up] http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Hi Paul, I gave the moebius ring shape a try.

Mine is not as cool as yours, I swept a rectangle around a circle with a 180 deg. twist. Then I merged the verts on the ends.
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Hey good work Mike, what app did you use for this?

Paul, would you be willing to share the source of the tut for creating this in wings?

I just love following this ring around and around and around... hehe http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Gidgit - here's the original tutorial . I post mine as soon I have time to write it down.

Gidgit, I modeled with sweep nurbs in C4D.

Paul... thank you very much... I will have a boo and see what's what, and I look forward to your tut...http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif This is great stuff http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Mike... would you care to share your technique on this as well, maybe a mini tut for C4D ? ... for what ever reason I personaly put this object ahead of the "teapot" for classic 3d... it's just a really cool object http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

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C4D ver8 http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Any questions?

Ok, here's my Wings tutorial: Clickety-Click (and now the images are linked correctly too)

Compaired to the original tutorial, in my tutorial I have another way of rotating the pieces: you only have to remember the 45' angle, and how to divide and multiply it by 2 http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

wow... wow wow... you guys are rock'n http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

This is great work by both of you guys- Mike, Paul... I really thank you two for taking the time to do up these tuts, and I hope that more than just one or two members here at TG will appreciate these as much as I do http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Later today I think I will sit down and attempt to build me one of these here fancy rings... Just awesome work guys [thumbs way high]

Nice work gentlemen http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Paul,

brilliant idea and execution!

With Rhino the construction of a moebius ring is kind of simple - see below.

Hey good work Jens http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif Always nice to see some different apps and methods applied http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Now then, how about going all the way you guys,rolling up those sleeves and taking a stab at modeling this shape through to a finished ring as Paul has done here... textured and rendered to look like it would be an actual piece of jewlery http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

anybody game?

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Well ... I guess that answered THAT question ... nice work Mike!

THAT question... Haha, Ed, you kill me http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif


I seriously doubt that there are as many good tutorials online for creating Mobius Rings as there are to create say the human head...

and... I really doubt that there are many sites online which could boast tutorials on how to create this wonderful piece via utilizing such a variety of apps to do so... this thread has quickly become a fantastic resource for any and all...


Mike, right on... these rings are unique and wonderful... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif any tips on how to create this manly looking gold finish? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif [thumbs up ]

Keep em coming guys...

Gidgit, material is Zbrush noise bump. A fairly basic shader with noise and color bump. I used a single light with a high intensity but with a soft shadow. Lighting has a lot to do with how things look. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif