Potato Chip Shape

Hello all, I was wondering if there is some way to torture a prim into a potato chip shape (I'm making a bowler style hat, but want the sides curved up, like in the attached picture). I've tried smushing prims together, but that doesn't get the curved edges like I want.

Would anyone have any ideas or suggestions about how to accomplish this?

I'd say play with a torus, twisted and tapered, then cut into quarters and flipped, four prims for the brim, then take another torus, cut in half length-wise and stretched to fit, the hole size set to small, to get that rounded edge at the top. Flatten a cylinder and place to fit for the very top and boom, you got it. For the band, copy the body torus and flatten it a bit, then make larger by one or two clicks.

Hope this helps.

Here is a similar thread, looks like that is a tough shape to create with the SL tools.

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You can do it with series of cut cylinders, each one tapered and skewed to an increasing degree from the last. It will be prim-heavy, of course, and it's difficult to explain in words without writing a full-blown lengthy tutorial, but the shape can be made.

you can do it with a torus.. IF you have a circular (alpha'd) texture....

photos to follow:

(normally I would apply a transparent texture to the other faces, but for this demonstration, it seems important to leave the edge showing)

Can't make it "thick" though.

Final model specs:

Object:

Object type: Torus
Size: x 0.129 Y 0.500 Z 0.500
Rotation: x 0.000 y 0.000 z 0.000
Path Cut: b 0.650 e: 0.850
Hollow: 95
Profile Cut: b 0.00 e 0.50

(all other object specs default)

Texture: (external)

Repeats per face: U 5.00 V 2.00
Rotation: -90
Offset: U 0.250 V 0.50

Texture: (internal)

Repeats per face: U 5.00 V 2.00
Rotation: -90
Offset: U 0.250 V 0.50

Pretty spiffy, Winter. Great way to show the steps involved, too.

Could use an intersecting alpha'd vertical cylinder to make the "edge"... but alpha sorting would probably kill the effect.

Thanks so much for the replies (especially Winter's mini tutorial!). I'll go play a bit with the alpha, but I suspect for a hat, the thin brim thing might not look that good. I might go with the "suggestion" of a turned up brim using built up prims instead. If I keep it black, the joins might not look too bad.

You could try both.. Making the potato chip shape (above) and then playing with toruses to make a rolled edge. Then you can 'make it thick" by using less hollow, and use the torii to help complete the illusion.

There was a thread of what I found to be quite a similar subject, back in January. You can see my response here, and browse around it to find the other responses, although much of them were quite similar in content.