Unrolling painted mesh

Hi!

I want to unroll a mesh with colors (see attached image) using the orange peel component.

I want the flat parts to keep the colors of the original mesh.

What's the best way to do this? is it even possible?

Thanks!

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painted mesh.jpg, 93 KB

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Permalink Reply by Andrei Nejur on April 2, 2018 at 2:22pm

Not for now... Maybe in the future.

Permalink Reply by Shay Tavori on April 3, 2018 at 12:03am

Hi Andrei,

Thanks for your reply.

I managed to do this eventually though I had to "flatten" the gradient so that every mesh triangle has a solid color. I even made a "color bleed" that passes the cutting lines.

The colors in this project were printed prior to laser cut:

https://youtu.be/2kGkqaYiBNk

Permalink Reply by Shay Tavori on April 3, 2018 at 12:28am

P.S.:

The flattening of the colors was necessary only for saving the graphics as a vector .ai file (for print) using the human plugin.

It is possible to transfer also gradient colors to the unrolled orange peels.

Permalink Reply by Andrei Nejur on April 3, 2018 at 4:10am

Great. I guess you can use vertex color if you manage to get the vertex numbers from the original mesh. I meant ivy does not readily provide them or transfer colors automatically. I'm glad you could find a workaround.

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