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The disadvantage of this method is that it is difficult to get the same level of detail,
and the wall inside the body may not be exactly 2 mm the whole way. It is left to the
modeler to verify tolerances. The advantage of this method is that a clever modeler
could take a picture of two different people facing each other and make a vase that
looks different on each side. It requires some clever manipulation of the reference
image to line up the features and could make an excellent gift.
Summary
Creating this vase taught many important 3D modeling skills and principles
as follows:
• Importing a reference image
• The
Screw
modifier
• The
Solidify
modifier
• Normals, viewing, and fixing
• Deleting vertices
• Creating new faces from selections
The next chapter is another cool project that involves making something to match the
dimensions of a real-life object, a useful, if somewhat silly, ring that can hold an SD
card on a finger.
