Squaring the circle - I like it a lot. I think this is fun too, I spend hours making cool shapes for no reason at all.

You've taken the cylinder work in a new direction that I did. I was always thinking about lathing it. I like this a lot.

Couple challenges:

Can you make the square part fade gently into roundness, instead of abruptly? Meaning as you taper back to the original cylinder, also become round a little early.

Can you make it an eight-sided cylinder? Eight sided pillars are used a lot in architecture. This truely pointless, since you can just model an 8-sided cylinder very directly, but whatever.

In a church I saw pillars that are square at the ends, convert to a round torus with a swoop, then become 8-sided for the long middle part.

 

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