Rotating polygons with an attractor

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Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on July 2, 2014 at 8:12am

This is my attempt. I am afraid it is not exactly the same as in the image you provided but quite close...

in short: find closest attractor for each grid point---> draw vector from point to attractor---> align planes to vectors---> rotate planes 90 deegrees---> create rectangles on planes

nikos

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Permalink Reply by Adam Paul Martinez on July 2, 2014 at 9:15am

Thanks for your post, it is quite efficient. I tried posting my solution yesterday afternoon but I don't know why this did not post, however after many tries I finally got it to work. This definition does what the image is suggesting. However, I wonder if it is possible to start trying to get the "spiraling" down. What do you think?

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Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on July 3, 2014 at 5:17am

In your example you rotate the pills by an angle in degrees equal to their distance from the attractors. This seems to work in your file only because their distances vary from 0 to 90 so this is "converted" to degrees well. If you change your grid size the problems start...

my last guess would be to work with fields. Although I am not very familiar with them, I gave it a try and I think the result is a bit closer to the desired.

maybe someone more experienced could help more.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Paul Martinez on July 3, 2014 at 9:41am

This is great, thanks Nikos. I would like to learn more about the fields to start

utilizing their potential. Again, thanks for the help.

Permalink Reply by nardo chai on July 3, 2014 at 8:47pm

I don't know how to use attractor points to archive this, I can think of is tween curves to complete..

Permalink Reply by Adam Paul Martinez on July 6, 2014 at 12:33am

Hi Nardo,

Thanks for replying. This picture is quite interesting, Do you happen to have a definition I can look at as to how to apply this to future iterations? Again, thanks for responding.

-APM

Permalink Reply by nardo chai on July 6, 2014 at 3:31am

Sure. Here is the def.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Paul Martinez on July 7, 2014 at 9:04am

This is interesting, I've never used tween curves. I am excited to see what I can do with them. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the tip.