Prim Heart?

Ok, i'm stumped...is there an easy way to make a heart out of prims?

TIA

rez a box, make it the desired height (Keep it square the first time.)

Rez a cylinder, then set the cut to .5, 1 so that it is a half-circle. Place this on one of the sides of the square. Repeat, so that you use 3 prims, a cube, and two cylinders, to make a prim heart. The two rounded 'sections' of the heart would be made of of the cylinders.

OR

use sculpties

Depends on how many prims you want, and what angles it needs to be viewed from. There's a way to prim-torture a single prim into a flat heart shape. But as I recall, it is very thin. You can do three prims, as a half a square and two half circles, but the result is less than perfect... Of course, a sculpty could do it easily, once you learn how to make them.

i usually jsut use 2 cylinders and rotate them a bit.... O.o
looks ok to me when i do it

Using the program in this thread:
/8/c5/213219/1.html

And the instructions in this blog:
http://ayumicassini.blogspot.com/2007/10/plopp-goes-sculptie.html

You get a one prim, not flat, sculpty heart, for 10L upload fee.

Or wait until my SL inventory isn't borked and I'll send you the one I already have in-world.

A

Heh, how many times are we going to have to go through this heart-shape topic? (See /8/8d/170533/1.html ...which wasn't hard to find back.) I guess it's just that much of a popular shape.

That said, the "heart" is probably a great example of a shape that can be done a variety of different ways (depending on what exactly you want):
-2 elliptical prims cut diagonally and stuck together (mentioned in the link above)
-2 uncut elliptical shapes intersecting, for a rounded underside (mentioned by Sara here)
-a flat heart shape made from twisting and squashing a particular prim Ceera and I have seen...
-other prim forms...
-sculpties drawn up easily in Plopp
-sculpties with their heart-shape neatly laid out in the simple TOKOROTEN
-for the truly elaborate, sculpties made in more advanced software!

But for sculpties based on 2-D symbols, either Plopp (which makes inflated shapes, and excels in easy texturing) or TOKOROTEN (which gives pretty clean and straightforward control over your 2-D shape, with a few different 3-D options) should do quite enough.

http://kanae.net/secondlife/tokoroten.html

Just because I got carried away with this, here's my own Tokoroten heart I drew up with care:

(Just save that to a .txt file, and you'll already have it in Tokoroten's native format for import!)