Loft through different shapes
A round base lofts into a five-pointed star and on into two separate circles.
The sections need not match: a circle has no corners, the star has ten, and the top is two regions. Between two sections the shape is a blend of both: it keeps what they share and stays within what they cover together, so the star's points grow out of the circle and the waist parts into two before the top.
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