Miss B posted at 7:16PM Wed, 20 February 2019 - #4346716

Ohhhh thanks Lux. I was thinking more of a curved wire that went through the ear and attached to the sides of the Dupin Cyclide (rather than the top arch of the Dupin Cyclide), but attaching the whole thing "as is" to hook earrings works as well. I'll check out the others too while I'm at it.

Thank you. I'm just glad it has given you some inspiration. I'd be thrilled if you created something from it on your own. I was hesitant to make this tutorial to begin with, because I felt that the shape was rather rudimentary, but I realized that it's not as simple as it looks. When I showed the freebie model to some people no one asked how it was made because everyone just assumes you could take a standard torus and just squeeze the top part. In fact, you "could" do that with something like soft selection or proportional editing tool in Blender, but it only works sufficiently with a rather high density of points and still there is further editing involved to get it to be an actual Dupin Cyclide shape. So when I thought about the different techniques to approach this model, I felt like a tutorial would be worth it after all. There's really only a few ways you could do this, and this particular method isn't an obvious one, so I decided to show it.

Thanks again! Have fun.

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