A Challenge

[Egg Bramhill]

If you visit Xara's site at HERE they have a design for the box of XaraWebstyle (I think all the new products have the same style now) but there is an interesting shape within these designs. I managed to recreate it but I had to cheat and use Xara3D for part of it. The shapes are similar to an angled gear. See my attachment. The challenge is can anyone think of a way of producing this shape in XaraX alone.
Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

If you visit Xara's site at HERE they have a design for the box of XaraWebstyle (I think all the new products have the same style now) but there is an interesting shape within these designs. I managed to recreate it but I had to cheat and use Xara3D for part of it. The shapes are similar to an angled gear. See my attachment. The challenge is can anyone think of a way of producing this shape in XaraX alone.
Egg

[gdavidson]

Egg,

I'm not sure if it's close enough but perhaps more tweaking with the perspective tool will get the desired result.

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Graeme

[Renaud]

Realy excelent Graeme ;-)
I have tought an other way, but results are not perfects :

[gdavidson]

Renaud,

That's a good way to do it!

It certainly looks closer to the real one than my one does [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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Graeme

[Egg Bramhill]

I'm impressed.
Graeme: I must admit I tried the exact method, but unfortunatly it still gives a flat instead of a circular pyramid shape. (I've posted your final result below)
Renaud: Your method is one I'd never think of using! You've got the raised centre but there's still a slight distortion in the lines, but it's very close.
I wonder if it can be done in Xara alone?
Thankyou both for the feedback, it's quite a challenge.
Egg

[Renaud]

If you look closer you'll see that my shapes are not perfects... they would nead some work on the dash pattern to make each line thiner.

But you can control colors along the blend, and for exemple build something like this :

[Egg Bramhill]

I was messing around with the transparent gif's I'd exported from Xara3D and came up with this fantasy island.
Egg

[arnold foss]

Best I could do, using a brush, and perspective mold. Interesting excercise.

Arnold

[gdavidson]

You should title it "Isle of Xara" - geddit [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

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Graeme