Illustrator Stroke Bullshit
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phoenix_r
2009 May 13 • 625
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Sooo I'm making a hot-sweet bocce ball drawing in illustrator for a hot-sweet corporate bocce ball team. I want a ball with two large stripes. The problem I have is with one of the stripes not lining up neatly with the edge of the ball - I want to use the outside sphere to limit the stroke of the interior line, if you're picking up what I'm putting down. See the bottom stripe below:
I can do it with many smaller lines that 'look like' one big stripe, but when I tried it I had to readjust the smaller lines every time I scaled the image. I've also tried adding an anchor at either end so that I could curve just the endpoint such that it lines up with the edge of the sphere, but it's always noticeable/it looks like crap.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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(Edited 2011 Apr 8 at 10:35)
2011 Apr 8 at 10:33
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phoenix_r
2009 May 13 • 625
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I figured out what I wanted to do using the 3D Revolve effect, basically mapping straight lines to a sphere, which I didn't know Illy could do...GG Adobe.
The technique I used was adapted from the follorrrringggg: http://vforvectors.com/create-a-colorful-christmas-ball/
EDIT apparently this solution has the same problem as the 'many small lines' technique did - it doesn't scale cleanly. BUMMER!
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(Edited 2011 Apr 8 at 11:17)
2011 Apr 8 at 11:10
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Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse
2007 Oct 19 • 5327
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2011 Apr 8 at 13:10
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phoenix_r
2009 May 13 • 625
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Down Rodeo said: You could have a top-level blank bit that has a hole, i.e. on top of the lines. Dunno if I'm saying this well. Like, basically have a rectangle, with a bit cut out.
You mean like a sort of manual masking? Thus far it's been no big deal to remap my stripes when I scale, that (the mapped symbol itself) is the only it that's not properly scaling, it actually keeps it the same size and remaps it onto the bigger/smaller sphere, quite a pain. Maybe there is some 'scale mapped symbol with revolved object' check-box that I've missed...
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2011 Apr 8 at 14:15
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Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse
2007 Oct 19 • 5327
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(Edited 2011 Apr 9 at 04:04)
2011 Apr 9 at 04:03
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superjer
superjer
2005 Mar 20 • 3762
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I think you would be better using a filled region rather than strokes for the stripes.
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(Edited 2011 Apr 11 at 16:31)
2011 Apr 11 at 16:31
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phoenix_r
2009 May 13 • 625
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superjer said: I think you would be better using a filled region rather than strokes for the stripes.
I think you're right, SJ. I went with a different design anyways, but I certainly learned some useful stuff here. Thanks!
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2011 Apr 12 at 10:14
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superjer
superjer
2005 Mar 20 • 3762
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"Hiding information from people who aren't looking for it is really easy."
--Book of SuperJer 6:24
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(Edited 2011 Apr 12 at 19:31)
2011 Apr 12 at 19:31
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the_cloud_system
polly pushy pants
2008 Aug 1 • 2832
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if you fuck a drunk chick, you have more morals than the guy who did not.
book of cloud,5:21
I am on a journey that I hope I will never finish.
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(Edited 2011 Apr 12 at 20:49)
2011 Apr 12 at 20:49
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phoenix_r
2009 May 13 • 625
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superjer said: I think you would be better using a filled region rather than strokes for the stripes.
I had similar problems here, whenever I scaled the stripes got janked and I had to manually fix them. Every scaling here was with the shift modifier. I tried adding the alt modifier as well but no dice. All of this could have been avoided if I had the right specs to begin with in the first place, but I didn't find out until after several drafts that the design was to be applied to t-shirts on adhesive vinyl. A machine cuts a vinyl positive and then somebody has to go in with an x-acto and pick out all of the whitespace bits, and then the vinyl applies to the t-shirt like a sticker. My clients would have absolutely cooked in the original design, quite a bit of vinyl on your back on a hot day...then again it's the PNW so it will probably rain the day of the tournament anyways.
Thanks for the help, guys.
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2011 Apr 13 at 12:40
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Rockbomb
Dog fucker
2009 Nov 13 • 1942
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phoenix_r said: "If you lived here, you'd be home by now.
--Book of Zachjer 12:05pm
D:
There's a sign that says that on some apartments right by my house... you don't happen to live in Colroado, do you? 
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2011 Apr 15 at 12:21
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Mate de Vita
Kelli
2008 Oct 4 • 2414
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aaronjer said: He doesn't live in Colroado. That isn't even a real place. God.
I don't know, this restaurant seems to be located there:
...and that's the bottom line because Mate de Vita said so.
Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.
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2011 Apr 16 at 06:54
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