Tree Dangler (Christmas Ornaments)

[thorsness]

Hi everyone,

This year I made an ornament creator. It generates SVGs for ornaments made out of wooden pieces connected by jewelry jump rings.

You can use it yourself here to create your own.

Here’s a tutorial and here’s an explanatory blog post.

This is the main ornament design I created out of Proofgrade Medium Walnut:

The program looks like this:

Here are a couple of test projects held in front of their simulation:

Anyway, I put in enough time into the software that just using it to make the two ornament designs I need for this Christmas seems a bit underwhelming, so I hope someone else might give it a try!

Thanks,
Jason

[rvogt]

This is so cool. Thanks for the share!!

[dklgood]

Interesting. Thanks for the write up and the share. I expect I’ll be having some fun playing with these fragments.

[deirdrebeth]

That’s lovely! I definitely don’t think I’ve seen a similar family-group ornament like that

*That is also a lesson in “I don’t understand tension dynamics!”

[tjones]

Thanks for the generosity. Ho Ho Ho.

[Thumper369]

So cool. Also a lot of fun just to play with the simulator.

[chris1]

@thorsness

explanatory blog post

Very impressive! And thank you for sharing everything including the backstory and prompts.

[thorsness]

Thanks! Yes, I was very impressed at how well Gemini was able to help with the UX. These helpers make doing a custom program for just one project way more accessible. I did a different editor in 2022 for maze coasters and even though it was a simpler program it took me way more weekends and evenings to get it working.

[cynd11]

What a clever and unique project! Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

[LauraZM]

That is a really cool tool. Thank you for sharing it!

[ellencadwell]

What a generous share! Thank you so much!

[MakerMatthew]

Great work and great share! Love a good software project!

[diannall44]

The app is really cool! Nice work.

[ca_worth]

very clever

[reynoso]

Thank you @thorsness for sharing. Beautiful and unique project.