Loop itteration with time delay

Hey guys

I am trying to use attached VB code in GH to show the vertical pipes increasing in diameter over a series of small iterations so that people can see its diameter growing in time. I wrote a while loop with a time delay so that it would output variable A in .1 increments modifying the pipe diameter through time.

Problem: My computer is not showing the in between stages of diameter incremental increases, only the beginning and final diameters. I cant imagine my computer is too slow to process that little loop and update the graphics, there must be something wrong with the code??? What am I missing?

Thanks for the insight!

McK

Attachments:

FTH_2.gh, 31 KB
fth_Dome.3dm, 28 KB

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 7, 2011 at 2:30am

Hi McK,

Grasshopper is not an animation package so if you want to show a process which happens within a single solution, you're going to have to do a lot of hacking. You will also run into problems for if you refresh the viewports during a Grasshopper solution a lot of the preview geometry will be missing.

I'll take a look at your files, see if I can come up with something.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by McKinnley Workman on October 8, 2011 at 11:11am

Well, if I can't easily do it in GH then could I have GH read inputs form a file that updates/increments values every couple seconds? That file could just be a VB prog that sends GH updated numbers. It seems like I should be able to do that with out having to outsource though---weird.

Thank you.

McK

Permalink Reply by Ralph Zoontjens on December 2, 2014 at 4:13am

Have there in the meantime been any updates on animation capabilities? I would like to do something similar. For example create a grid of elements but put a small delay between the creation of each element, so you visually see the process like a short animation. It would make it more interesting to interact with sliders for a non-coder if the output gets animated, it could start to show a kind of story.

For the question above, it's possible to send data from Processing and have these as inputs to dynamically update the GH geometry.

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