component to gap

hi, I need to gap some volumes randomly but I don't know what component to use, I cannot use rotate to do that, which one do I need to use?

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Permalink Reply by Gerardo García on February 1, 2016 at 5:52pm

Hi, I have the same problem...:)

Permalink Reply by Alejandra Samar on February 1, 2016 at 6:07pm

we need to find the answer! what should we do?!?!?!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 2, 2016 at 3:44am

What do you mean by 'gap'?

Permalink Reply by Gerardo García on February 2, 2016 at 11:08am

she means to offset... we need to do a tower with 50 plane faces one above the other, but they need to be randomly moved in the xy plane in a range of 0 to 3 units...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 2, 2016 at 11:37am

Ah, this is a 'do my homework for me' question!

Well, here's an approach you can use:

Generate a set of random numbers. You can either directly use the Random component, in which case you can get any number in between zero and 3 (1.00003, 2.93412, ... etc.), or you can make a list of which numbers you'll accept, then Duplicate that list until it's the correct length and finally Jitter it to randomize the order of the numbers.
Using your random numbers, create vectors. The random numbers need to be plugged into the X and/or Y inputs of Construct Vector.
Finally move each panel using a different vector. For this, you obviously need to generate as many vectors as you have panels.

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