Partial 250 Cylinder Challenge submission

2:08 PM, Wednesday May 10th 2023

Chayota's progress in the 250-cylinder challenge. - Google Drive

Chayota's progress in the 250-cylinder challenge. - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fMkxNxUW7mYH9YEaNS_Yv9qBio8-aDCZ?usp=share_link

Here are 100 cylinders I have made so far. All on an arbitrary axis.

I have tried to improve the precision, symmetry and inclination of each ellipse on its axis.

However, I think some advice could also help me a bit!

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When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.

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