In this recipe, we're going to work through an exercise using the stencils we made with Paint.NET. We'll use the starfish model we made in Chapter 6, Making the Impossible, as our work example. We'll find that stamping stencils with Meshmixer is an easy solution for making a realistic organic form using patterns and textures.
You'll need the starfish model that we made in TopMod.
First, we'll need to do a little work with the model before we start. Let's take a look at the following image of real starfish:
We'll need to model some more features of the starfish before we can add a texture.
The starfish on the left-hand side of the following screenshot is what we made in TopMod. The starfish on the right-hand side has been modeled in more detail using the sculpting brushes in Meshmixer. You should be familiar with these tools from the Meshmixer recipes in Chapter 2, Optimizing the Printing Process.
