for the birds

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Published on February 22, 2013
This thing was Featured on March 10, 2013
This thing can be customized with MakerBot Customizer! Open in Customizer

Description

CUSTOMIZER CHALLENGE CONTEST WINNER - Wearable Category

Bird pendant generator.

From the opening angle of his tail, the number of feathers on it, to the ratio of separation between upper and lower part of his beak: everything is parametric.
That makes a lot… hence the graphical assistant to help you in this task !
Bird Shaper : chaaawa.com/forthebirds


Designed by Lætitia

Instructions

Design the main shape of your pendant in the Bird Shaper.
Paste the output in Customizer and fine tune the details (toes, ring…)

Bird Shaper also available in .zip for offline use.
Google Swiffy output (for devices without flash player) is barely functionnal. A full rewrite is required for an useable html version.


MakerBot Industries, jury members, Thingiverse users:

Thank you !

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Great work, can't see more!

Only a few of the parameters in the Bird Shaper page are changeable for me. How can I fix that?

Beak height, feather number and feather width: by clicking on up and down arrows, all other by drag&drop on red handles.

Congrats, Benjamin! Keep the great UI concepts coming :)

This is very clever. After messing around with the parameters, I could even make the bird look something like a fish. With just a few tweaks your geometries could have a "for the fishes" option too.

Thanks.
But before the fishes which are not that far, I'd love to try a body of this shape:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...
Too bad I've not seen it earlier.

This is awesome on so many levels. The flash site is brilliant. Very well done.

Very cool. I initially thought you should just have the Bird Shaper as sliders in the customizer but it would take painfully long to redraw every time you moved something. So I like the separate Shaper tool very much. It's too bad there isn't a means for doing this in the customizer, with quick refresh like your app does.

Thank you.
The separate tool was not planned. It has emerged from the first tests, and divides by two the number of parameters. Soon, we might be able to pass values from the outside to "Customizer", avoiding the copy/paste. Or it's already feasable and i don't know how.