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Hello Everyone!
I'm back with my 3D modelling guides and for today's featured subject, is the Icosahedron or what we commonly see in sports as the soccer ball.
If you missed some of my guides before,you check them out on the links above. I also created some 3D logos of hive communities. And if you have some figures you want me to make, feel free to suggest them in the comment below.
Enjoy!
Process
Using a polygon tool, create a pentagon and a hexagon. Their sides must be equal. Put them together where one of their side is in co-linear.
Rotate the hexagon shape with respect to the side where it touches the pentagon. The angle must be 37.38 degrees. That angle is related to dihedral angle of an icosahedron which is 142.62 degrees. The point where the intersecting perpendicular lines meet will serve as the radius of the subject.
Apply loft tool to those polygons with a path directed to the center of the icosahedron.
Create a larger sphere and another smaller sphere inside the larger one. Apply subtract tool to those to create a hollowed sphere. Make 2 hollowed spheres. Their difference in sizes will serve as the thickness of your lofted polygons.
Apply intersect tool to those solid forms. One sphere per polygon. And you'll get the curved pentagon and polygon for your subject. Apply fillet tool to smoothen rough edges. Apply colors. Black and white is the most common color of a soccer ball.
Now, you'll just have to apply array tool to those figures. First, with the hexagon.
For the pentagon, you'll have to copy the first pentagon you created and apply 3dalign tool to attach it to the hexagon. Then again, apply array tool to produce more pentagon in circular path.
Repeat those steps until you get the exact figure of a icosahedron or commonly known as soccer ball.
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