Bioshock - Rapture Key

made in Cinema 4D v8.1

there was only one image of this item on the entire internet . now there are two

making this was fairly easy but it's the most complicated boole structure i've ever accomplished .

sleep warning - do not read any further unless you are totally bored already

"boole" means cutting the indented lines . i actually took the entire blade frame (without the center elevations) and converted it to an object , sized it down a bit , then booled (removed) that from the original blade itself . then i added the elevated cuts but they are also subtracted from the original blade - which leaves them only visible in the area of subtraction between the original blade and the "current state to object" mini copy . in effect that cuts the top of them and restrains the visibility to only inside of the blade's main boole area .

to point to this in the image - if you look at the center cuts you'll see that they are rounded on the edges , but they are not rounded on the top . the "round" comes from the cubes being Filleted . that normally makes the tops rounded to . ah ha ! cut the top and bottom with booles . the difference this effect causes can be easily seen in the cubes nearest to the green hilt where the center cube is not cut