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I recently made a logo in figma, which I would like to further enhance in Blender. I'm thinking of a Geometry Node Setup, in which I can modify the thickness non-destructively and maybe include a nice spin/screw animation in there.

Should I use a curve for the node setup? Or does it make more sense to start with a mesh?

I'm thinking of using like a 1/4 of the shape and maybe screw it along the center point of origin, but that doesn't look good so far.

Thanks for your guidance! enter image description here

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    Commented Aug 16 at 12:45
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you for your suggestion, I now tried to describe the shape in the title. $\endgroup$
    – jdc
    Commented Aug 16 at 14:15

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The main problem here is that a cyclic curve automatically interpolates the tilt between its start and end. So instead I bevel the curve first, and then split at the same spot where the radial gradient has a seam. Still, I have two overlapping edge loops on $y=0; x<0$, each sampling the gradient texture exactly on its seam - so I mix the position a little bit with a face position to move away from that seam. You could instead make/reuse a check, and in this case set the position to a switch between $<-1, 0, 0>$ and $<1, 0, 0>$ vectors depending on the face's $y$ sign.

I've set the integer to $3$ above, but multiples of $4$ give a more symmetric result:

I forgot to add "Merge by Distance" which is important for perfect shading:

You can offset the gradient:

Alternate:

Or like in your reference, limit to certain areas:

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    $\begingroup$ This is seriously amazing, thanks for your setup! Personally I used 0.575m for the Fillet Curve, Free Handle Type, Quadrilateral of 0.4m an a map range from 0.1 to 0.9 to get closer to the Figma Design, but without you this would be impossible for me! $\endgroup$
    – jdc
    Commented Aug 16 at 16:34

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