Making a Chipotle Pepper
First, I convert Chipotle’s logo to vector with Illustrator:
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I tried to make a nice smooth design in Blender:
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Onto the machining:
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Adaptive Clearing 1/4 (Remove large chunks):
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Pocket 1/8 (Remove big chunks that Adaptive couldn’t):
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Contour 1/16 (follow the detailed contour of the pepper):
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Pocket 1/16 (clean the islands left over by contour and make detailed snapping holes):
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My first try molding didn’t work well because I used materials that were a little too old and I mixed them for too long, so that the mixture became too hard and didn’t let bubbles rise. Here’s results from my second try:
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The process:
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The result:
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