Stripes model- attractors

Hi everyone,

first and foremost thank you (yes you!) for the information you share in this forum, it is extremely helpful!.

I'd like your help with my final project :) (interior design and built environment 4th and final year).

I have a working code in which I create extruded stripes based on a curve (see included files)

Now I want to have an attractor point (or more, but I'll start with one) that controls the height of the lines that I created from the initial points (in the z direction), but the division has to stay the same (I don't want to get "broken" stripes). and the effect needs to be smooth.

Now the code i have right now for this, works only on the original points of the base curve (see included files) and is not smooth at all. I need the attractor to effect all of the points created after the devision.so that if I move the attractor point on the "grid" of points I have ,after the devision, the lines near it will become longer, thus creating larger openings between the stripes. I tried various ways, but have failed so far.

sorry for the long description and thank you so much!

p.s. the graph mapper is not necessary if I am able to do what I want, so you can just get rid of it :)

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Stripes.ghx, 204 KB
WithAtrractor.ghx, 267 KB
basecrv.3dm, 28 KB

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Permalink Reply by Roitman Tanya on June 1, 2011 at 4:57am

Sorry for bugging you, but that is not exactly what I had in mind.

The problem is that the change depends on the distance of the attractor from the base curve.

What I wanted was an effect similar to the simplest attractor tutorials, i.e. all of the points that I have (those on all of the lines in the z direction) are like a grid of points, and where I move the attractor I have a certain radius of impact.

Also I want the lines that are effected by the attractor to be longer then then the other lines (basically the wall needs to be higher in that place).

really,thanks a lot for your patience....

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 1, 2011 at 5:22am

Edit oops I've gone the other way. Sorry

I think I'm with you now. But if not you are going to have to draw me a sketch or something.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 1, 2011 at 5:52am

Here's the fix swap the A and B inputs on the division component and put in a Min before the weave.

Permalink Reply by Roitman Tanya on June 1, 2011 at 7:52am

In what you did, there is an L- I see it's a number component but is the value of the number? also what is the value of b?
and I'm adding a sketch of what I want the outcome to be- do you see how the gaps between the stripes increase because the vertical dimension in that area is longer?

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question.jpg, 422 KB
sketch.jpg, 1.1 MB

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 1, 2011 at 7:59am

L is the 400 that you had initially for the SDL value of L all I did was extract Parameter in order to use it later in the definition.

B is 2 I'm just halving the gap between lines.

I see now. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Permalink Reply by Roitman Tanya on June 1, 2011 at 9:36am

I have a problem with the definition. the loft doesn't work and it shows a problem with the connecting line from the first dispatch to the divide. I don't understand what the problem is....

thanks again for all your help :).

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