Regular to Irregular polygon generator

I'm really new with grasshopper. I'm trying to make a definition so as to generate irregular polygons, with only radius length, angle between them and amount of sides.

I did this and I was wondering (as it is only one part of another big system) if there was a better way to generate this.

Thank you !

(Here is vid which explains what it is for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Jcuci8OnU)

I finally used point polar, I need now a previous step in which I state how many points I will add, generating a regular polygon and then modifying the distance and angle. Is there a way to merge Regular polygon generator with point polar?

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polygon generator.gh, 7 KB

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Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on September 1, 2014 at 8:54am

Hi Carolina, maybe like this. I don't know if this is better, you be the judge.

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polygongenerator_PSG.gh, 22 KB

Permalink Reply by Carolina Wundes on September 1, 2014 at 9:03am

Thank you for the reply, I can't seem to open it correctly because I'm missing the blur numbers plugin?

Again thank you!

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on September 1, 2014 at 9:11am

Update GH to a newer version, Blur Numbers is a native GH component.
edit: you can also choose to just bypass it for now.

Permalink Reply by Carolina Wundes on September 8, 2014 at 9:44am

Thank you Pieter! Although the system is simpler i still need to control more variables, but it may be useful in another project !

Permalink Reply by Thomas on September 8, 2014 at 10:29am

Hi Carolina!

Very good for a beginner!

A little advice: Use the [Point Polar] component. That simplifies the definition a lot and you only have to add a new slider to create an additional vertex.

Greetings!

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polygon.gh, 6 KB

Permalink Reply by Carolina Wundes on September 14, 2014 at 1:48pm

Thomas ! Thank you very much I updated the whole system with that definition, and each time I need to add a vertex, as you said, I only add a slider.

Permalink Reply by Thomas on September 15, 2014 at 11:03am

I'm glad I could help!

Some more advanced techniques: You can create your own component. Just add [Cluster Input] and [Cluster Output] to your parameters. Then select the components, right click on the canvas and select "Cluster".

The selection gets replaced by a single component.

You can edit the captions in the context menu. By selecting "Edit Cluster..." you can edit the content of the cluster. The changes take also effect to all copies of the cluster.

For example you can add an additional input for the z-position of the polygon.