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Several hard taco shells are arranged in a circle standing vertically. The lower tacos are held in place by a curved piece of acrylic. The top tacos remain in place like a stone arch bridge.

This arrangement is called an Irish Tortilla.

Questions and Answers

Why is it called a tortilla when it is made out of tacos?

This was not revealed to me.

How do you apply filling to the lower tacos?

This was not revealed to me.

What is specifically Irish about it?

This was not revealed to me.

#The Cohost Global Feed #blender3d #i'm proud of going from 0 blender knowledge to this in less than 2 hours #should probably learn it from the ground up proper though instead of just guessing and googling #food #this was not revealed to me #the irish tortilla

rykarn @rykarn9/9/2024, 8:20 PM

(I've had this one loaded in my drafts for posting in October but because of developments I will post it right away)

One year ago I had a dream. Later, as I was waking up I revisited the few details I could remember from it. I am standing in an ice cream cafe in the town I grew up in. (A cafe we visited once, there was nothing special about it yet it remains in my memory for some reason.) On a table is an arrangement of tacos in a vertical circle, cradled by a piece of bent acrylic. I do not need to be told that this is called an Irish Tortilla, it is simply established in my mind that this is the truth.

As I laid there, turning this fragment of my dream around in my mind, I started laughing. During the day, I started laughing once more. I realized I needed to share this with the world.

One year ago I had one of the most fun times I've had online ever. The frenzied effort of getting around in an unfamiliar program, making the 3d model increasingly match the image in my mind, cackling as I see the grainy render take shape on my screen. Watching my notifications blow up as more and more people get psychically blasted from seeing what is out there in the idea world, the things that sometimes manifest themselves in our minds from a source not inhabiting the same reality we do.

I want to do this justice.

Contrary to what I wrote in the comments of my original post, I ended up revisiting Blender and learning it properly. Blender is the first time in a very long time that I've found myself being enthusiastic about a piece of technology. What you can do with it is just amazing. And it's free! You can just go download it and get started. There are tutorial series on youtube that guide you through the entire program, building up a scene, learning shading, lighting, rendering, compositing, a bunch of stuff.

I would not have learned this skill had I not dreamed about an arrangement of tacos. This was revealed to me.

#the irish tortilla #this was revealed to me #i am genuinely emotional writing this #blender3d #particularly proud of my loopable fog shader

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tmhector @tmhector10/9/2023, 6:14 PM

can the acrylic that holds the taco shells be another, larger, taco shell?

rykarn @rykarn10/9/2023, 6:26 PM

Infinitely Recursive Irish Tortilla. Guaranteed ShaderToy of the week for whoever decides to implement that.

@NRS10/9/2023, 6:39 PM

On top of which one large tortilla is placed, which we all live on.

[deleted]10/10/2023, 8:38 AM

Frost Sparks @frostsparks6/1/2024, 2:43 PM

and then, turtles all the way down? or tortillas? tortletillas?

philosophy major (derogatory (reclamative))@nullpat10/9/2023, 6:18 PM

I immediately feel like it makes sense, just not in a way that's possible to explain or understand

in tuft we trust @tit10/9/2023, 6:45 PM

2 hours? incredible!!!!

rykarn @rykarn10/9/2023, 6:48 PM

Thanks! Also goes to show that Blender manages to make the complex domain of 3d modelling at least somewhat intuitive and approachable.

Digital Beast Plus+@DigitalBeast10/9/2023, 7:24 PM

Goes to show how their efforts have been rewarded. Blender used to be considered a most impenetrable dark labyrinth, before a massive UI overhaul that everyone now benefits from, myself included.

The Fru Fru Brigade~@Fru-Fru-Brigade10/10/2023, 2:56 AM

Wait, it stopped being one????

@Happytoaster10/10/2023, 5:12 AM

Parts of it can now be figured out without watching a tutorial.

The Fru Fru Brigade~@Fru-Fru-Brigade10/10/2023, 5:59 AM

Oh, no, I mean, I just hadn't checked it because I heard all about how hard it was to use.

cassie @porglezomp10/10/2023, 8:31 AM

Yeah like 5 years ago, maybe even more. They’ve put lots of investment into making it usable, it’s been dramatically improved multiple times but imo (having used Blender and Maya) some time during 2.7 it became only as hard to use as any capable 3D software kind of has to be.

Digital Beast Plus+@DigitalBeast10/12/2023, 6:19 PM

I like to think so. They did a complete UI overhaul, reworked the workflows, put things into clever menus where anything can be added to a quick menu that's context-aware (vertex mode, object mode, etc). I managed to go from knowing zero about Blender, to working on what I needed to do within a few hours of reading some tutorials and watching a few vids. I might have had to google specific things a few times, when hitting those weird corners where you just don't know what they're expecting: but compared to how Blender was when Max and Maya ruled the roost, it's lightyears better.

river @birbs10/9/2023, 6:47 PM

i mean if you squint its kinda like a claddagh ring

Sebastian @zenithstar9510/9/2023, 6:50 PM

In Ireland we do have a takeaway dish called taco fries that has pretty much nothing to do with tacos so this is on brand actually

Chamomile🐑@chamomile10/9/2023, 10:07 PM

Oh huh, that seems to be more or less the same as what we call chili cheese fries in the States.

kata 🌊 aqua!@kadybat10/9/2023, 8:04 PM

why is it irish?

rykarn @rykarn10/9/2023, 8:17 PM

This was not revealed to me.

TheFinalNut @Partyman10/10/2023, 1:06 AM

You know that one episode of Great British Bake Off where they try to make s'mores? Yea, like that, but Irish.

Fuzunga @Fuzunga10/9/2023, 8:35 PM

This reminds me of the time I woke up in the middle of the night to write down the concept for an anime I dreamt up. It was called "Devil Partner Sausage" and starred a detective with a pack of Twizzlers for a head and his partner, one of those plastic squeeze bottles of Kool-Aid. I have no idea how the name relates to anything or why the characters are food items.

summer @summer10/9/2023, 8:51 PM

damn good job learning this shading so fast!!

Robyn, on my creechure arc @Robyn-SnowyFoxxo10/9/2023, 9:05 PM

As an Irish person, I can indeed confirm that this design is Irish

stubborn lights @stubbornlights10/9/2023, 9:33 PM

Was anything else revealed to you?

rykarn @rykarn10/10/2023, 6:44 AM

After checking my notifications this morning it was revealed to me that there are a lot of people on cohost

Jeremy Yap @jeruyyap10/10/2023, 12:36 AM

Good grief, I can feel the dream logic in this somehow.

forest @swiftyshq10/10/2023, 2:20 AM

there are so many beautiful parts of this post and i cant pick a favorite. good job on blendering this is literally the only type of thing you should start learning blender for

Is it Shaker!?@EarthShaker10/10/2023, 2:57 AM

I have the power to make this vision into concrete reality.

rykarn @rykarn10/10/2023, 6:45 AM

lmk if anything is revealed to you

@rotopenguin10/10/2023, 1:55 PM

Hmm, I sense somebody with a spare jai alai basket sitting around

fingerless @fingerless10/10/2023, 12:58 PM

this feels like something that an Australian "Mexican" joint would come up with.

@rotopenguin10/10/2023, 1:53 PM

On days when me mum wasn't feeling up to such a cooking ordeal, she'd make a "cheat Irish tortilla" by just assembling it into an arch with flying buttresses.