What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?

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I tried to make a fork in Blender, but it was so boring I fell asleep.
Is there a faster / more fun way to make a fork?

I'm open to everything: Modifiers, shaders, curves, booleans, displacement nodes...

^{I always get only this far, and then ^{- - - chrrrrrrr - - -}}

The laziest way would be post a question on the blender.stackexchange like "I'm new to blender and I need to make a fork ASAP. Plz help" — susu, Jan 10 '21 at 15:10
@susu There's this 'moonboots' guy he's really good with cutlery — jachym michal, Jan 10 '21 at 15:23
You shouldn't put a fork in the blender, you'll damage the blades. — Darrel Hoffman, Jan 13 '21 at 15:57
@AllenSimpson When I started this challenge, I hoped someone would attempt a pure node based solution :). I wasn't really sure it was even posssible :) — jachym michal, Jan 27 '21 at 15:28

score 70 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 10 '21 at 15:47

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As you know a fork rarely comes with only one peak, it generally has 2, more often 3 or 4, sometimes more. It would be very tedious to model each and every of those peaks.

As you may know, for this kind of task, Blender comes with very powerful tools like linked duplications, dupliframes, array modifier, etc... instead of modeling each of the peaks, you can model only one and repeat it infinitely.

Here I've used Particle System > Hair. The huge advantage is that you can easily choose the amount of peaks:

You can also change the Seed value in order to make it look more natural:

I hope it helps.

answered Jan 10 '21 at 15:47

moonboots

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" I hope it helps. " it doesn't much, but at least it was fun :D – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jan 10 '21 at 15:51
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Bless you 'boots. This is gold! :D – jachym michal Jan 10 '21 at 15:59
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This fork is specially useful for blending! – susu Jan 10 '21 at 16:08
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thanks, glad it helped – moonboots Jan 10 '21 at 16:13
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Why, oh why, didn't I think of that before? Such a time-saver. – Robin Betts Jan 10 '21 at 16:22
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yes a lot of hidden tricks in Blender, it's crazy – moonboots Jan 10 '21 at 16:27
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Some folks have FAR too much time on their hands! :^) – John Eason Jan 10 '21 at 16:33
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Did I miss April Fool's day? – user253751 Jan 10 '21 at 21:20
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I joined this exchange just to comment my appreciation of this post. I actually love how this is a good exercise to learn some of the blender concepts. I would love a set of tutorials where the result is always something ridiculous like this lol – flakes Jan 10 '21 at 21:40
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this is a triumph music starts – Allen Simpson Jan 11 '21 at 01:59
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"more natural" -- this got me. I need a hankie. +1 – a concerned citizen Jan 11 '21 at 08:01
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"more natural" fork ominously pointing lots of peaks at me – val - disappointed in SE Jan 11 '21 at 11:57

Allen Simpson · Answer 2 · 2021-01-11T05:29:14.213

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IMO the fastest method should be to subdivide a primitive icosphere and use the Cast modifier set to Fork, but this option is mysteriously missing from Blender!

In my opinion this is bad, and the devs should feel bad. It's easy enough to represent using the following node group.

Cool, but does it render well?

Not really.

edited Jan 11 '21 at 05:29

answered Jan 11 '21 at 05:00

Allen Simpson

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I wouldn't feel so bad about the render... the background is quite nice... – Robin Betts Jan 11 '21 at 05:24
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I heard they did Terminator 2 with this node setup – moonboots Jan 11 '21 at 07:02
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What in the actual fork!? This is great! :D – jachym michal Jan 11 '21 at 07:03
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the morphing would need a little tuto – moonboots Jan 11 '21 at 07:17
Is the sphere->fork morph done using Shape Keys? – Onyz Jan 11 '21 at 12:25
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Nodevember rules, everything happens in nodes apart from subdiv to give me some geometry. It's a vector math -> multiply right after the vector displacement, keyframed from 0 to 1. – Allen Simpson Jan 11 '21 at 14:16

score 31 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 11 '21 at 00:58

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This is both fun and fast

git clone git://git.blender.org/blender.git
git checkout -b my-fork

answered Jan 11 '21 at 00:58

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Quite frankly, that's just a branch. I'd go for this instead, which actually forks the repo to your account on GitHub: curl -X POST -u "${USER}:${GITHUB_TOKEN}" -d "{\"user\": \"${USER}\"}" "https://api.github.com/repos/blender/blender/forks" – Pål GD Jan 11 '21 at 20:16

score 28 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 10 '21 at 21:55

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Another solution would be to use Softbody:

Please tell me if you need a more in detail explanation.

answered Jan 10 '21 at 21:55

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Yes. Please add detail on how to do the plane – susu Jan 10 '21 at 22:03
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I've booleaned a dodecahedron, but you can do it with some hardsurface addons – moonboots Jan 10 '21 at 22:08
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there's now an addon called Plane but it's 90 $ :(( – moonboots Jan 25 '21 at 19:15

score 25 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 25 '21 at 20:27

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Unicode font

Copy the fork from unicode fonts

Add a font, edit mode, select text, select font, paste fork, extrude.

answered Jan 25 '21 at 20:27

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Paying "homage" to my "best" ever answer.. well vote-wise. – batFINGER Jan 25 '21 at 20:31
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Was contemplating the ancient history of the fork. The first known fork is thought to have been a wooden mono-prong arrangement, invented by MumbleGrunt circa 49,000 BC. – batFINGER Jan 25 '21 at 20:35

score 12 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 26 '21 at 17:58

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... tmp FORK

keep default Cube
add Array modifier and Mirror modifier (be careful about modifiers order)
add Curve Constraint ... but as you can see it's not enough time to enjoy its company ... :)

Like 3D printer, but much-much-much faster. But as many other things in our lifes the speed has a cost in its service life.

answered Jan 26 '21 at 17:58

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keep the default cube?? :O – jng224 Jan 26 '21 at 19:38
must... not... UPVOTE... – Allen Simpson Jan 30 '21 at 22:31

What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?

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