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Comment by Thomas Müller-Valentin on February 14, 2012 at 7:25am

Hi Andrew,

What you see here is technically the result of an orbital movement (modulated 3d-rotation) which is stretched along the x-axis.
Let's take a point (80,0,0) and rotate that point around every axis (y,z,x) – not much, just the fraction of a degree. Then we take a snapshot of its location and rotate (the initial point) again by 2 times the fraction of a degree. Snapshot again and so forth...The x-movement is added to the x-value of any point we got.
Now we're halfway done with it. Create an interpolated curve through the set of points and loft it. The section curves' radii are diversified by random. Et Voilà: looks like 3d calligraphy.

My definition is awfully stuffed with half done things at the moment, cause it is WIP. I'll try to tidy and put it up when the job is done.

Comment by Andrew Haas on February 12, 2012 at 7:58pm

very cool, can you explain how it was developed or share the definition?