Try it yourself

Clones give us a variety of ways to use an original shape and have it change all the copies we make of it throughout the document. We can use clones on top of each other in a layering effect to make a light bulb whose shape we can control by editing a simple original shape, as shown in Figure 10.13.

Figure 10.13 – A dynamic light bulb, which changes along with our original shape

Pretty neat, eh? So how do we go about making this? Let’s get started!

1. Let’s start out by making our basic light bulb parts. These bits will be static. That is, they will not be part of the clones we make and thus will be unchanged by our modification of the bulb shape clones. Figure 10.14 shows the process for making each part of the bulb.

Figure 10.14 – Creating and assembling the static parts of the light bulb

2. Now that we have the base of our light bulb graphic, we can make the basic shape...