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How to create Geometric objects - 11 Trees 🌳 Pure CSS

Introduction

2 years ago, wandering through the expanses of Behance, I came across an interesting work from the studio FlΓΆra. And in it I saw interesting geometric objects that reminded me of trees. I really liked the style of these illustrations and decided to try to implement them using CSS.

DEMO

You can also download the project from my GitHub repository. (There is also a demo on GitHub Pages).

GitHub logo Kerthin / trees-templateSait

The geometric representation of trees

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Description

This site is an example of work created specifically for the portfolio. If you want to take a look at it, then you can follow the link given below.

Use technology.

The following technologies were used to create this project:

Task-Manager

Software platform

Preprocessors

Libraries

Package manager


Plugins

To develop the project through gulp, I used the following types of NPM plugins:

Plugin Status Description
gulp-sourcemaps gulp-sourcemaps-status Intended for generation of css source maps which will be necessary at debugging of a code.
gulp-imagemin gulp-imagemin-status Minify PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG images with imagemin
gulp-autoprefixer gulp-autoprefixer-status Prefix CSS with Autoprefixer
imagemin-pngquant imagemin-pngquant-status Pngquant imagemin plugin
gulp-uglify gulp-uglify-status Minify JavaScript with UglifyJS3.
gulp-rigger gulp-rigger-status Rigger is a build time include engine for Javascript, CSS, CoffeeScript.
gulp-minify-css gulp-minify-css-status Gulp plugin to minify CSS
rimraf rimraf-status The UNIX command rm -rf for node.
gulp-watch gulp-watch-status File watcher that uses super-fast chokidar and emits vinyl
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Full Page Demo (GitHub Pages)

01. Seedling

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Creating this tree took the most time because of the need to create the lower oval dotted lines. Since to create such lines, I needed to create 16 hemispheres, each of which had a different size.

02. Sepal

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A very simple tree. There are no complicated shapes or lines.

03. Linden

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04. Pine

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To create winding lines with two or more corners, it is enough just to use several blocks with rounded corners that need to be connected in the necessary sequence.

05. Palm

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To create winding lines, the same method was used here as in the fourth tree.

06. Fir

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To create the moon, I used a round invisible block, which had the box-shadow property set with the value 20px 20px 0 0 #000.

I used the same method in my other works with illustrations



In order to create curved lines, you just need to set the properties for rounding individual corners. For example: border-bottom-left-radius or border-bottom-right-radius.

07. Rose

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08. Willow

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09. Sunflower

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To create such petals, you just need to use the border-radius property and set it to 50% 100px 0 80px or 100px 50% 80px 0. Depending on which way you need a slope.

10. Bell

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To create winding lines, the same method was used here as in the fourth tree.

11. Poplar

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THE END

Well, that's it. I just wanted to share my old work and nothing more. Thanks for attention.

Goodbye
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Top comments (8)

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Jared Becker

These look amazing! ^o^

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Roden

Thanks

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Phil Hasenkamp

Well done!

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Roden

Thanks

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alvinpeter9

Wow. This is on another level... Thumbs up

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Roden

Thanks 😊

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Oranda

Nice job with the CSS implementation. Also just wondering, how did you do the squirrel icon for your Github page? Love that little guy

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Roden

the post pattern is just a photo of an open menu in which you can select a tree.