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

[dalel]

[img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] Eye Site Web Design
Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know...
- Lewis Carroll

[Egg Bramhill]

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

[arnold foss]

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

Arnold

[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

[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]

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

[Egg Bramhill]

I haven't got time to respond in full at present......I MUST GET TO BED!!!...But I think Steve's got it !!!! Again that's another solution that didn't cross my mind. I've used the same method of moving the inner nodes here, but constructed the original shape somewhat differently.
Thanks to everyone for the responses, I'll reply in full later.
Egg

[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