Poison Ivy

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Comment by Martin Dembski on September 30, 2011 at 12:27am

Hi Michael,

 

up to now it's not faster than yours, I think, therefore I wanted to have a look on your definition. ;) Maybe you can send me an exported hi-res image to martin.dembski@uni-weimar.de?

With the metaballs in one direction it also works, but you always need to know which value you need to change , otherwise it fails.

But sometimes also the failed results are very interesting.

(have a look on the tasks of my students (you just need to click on the names) (the one with my name, which I also posted as link in the last post was just to show my students how it can look like))

 

Best,

Martin.

Comment by Michael Pryor on September 29, 2011 at 10:38am

Martin,

 

your definition looks interesting, how does it handle speedwise, is it quickly responsive? I see your only doing metaballs in one direction, I can never get a nice mesh like you did that way, I always use x,y,and,z for the metaballs. I will try your way after work today.

Comment by Martin Dembski on September 29, 2011 at 9:55am

Hi Michael,

 

thanks for the discription.

I'm also not a high professional in VB or C# scripting. I just know some things from Processing but mostly it's enough to understand some simple script.

I also did some similar stuff half a year ago in my class, but I always want to improve my definitions in performance/speed and of course in smart way's to do some things, so this is just my point of interest.

 

Best,

Martin.

Comment by Michael Pryor on September 29, 2011 at 8:42am

I used a meshfrompoints scripted component I found(I don't know any scripting) but it uses meshfrompoints rhino plugin. I can upload it later when I am home. It is a bit of a Frankenstein definition, I used pieces of a meta-ball definition I found because it has a script in it that removes interior duplicate lines (I wish i knew how to do that part with just GH components, i don't like to rely on what I don't know, especially because scripts can become easily obsolete with new GH versions) but other than that its basic custom meta-ball stuff mixed with attraction logic.

Comment by RWNB on September 29, 2011 at 5:22am

yes, would you share your def?

 

best,

rassul

Comment by Martin Dembski on September 29, 2011 at 3:24am

Hi Michael,

 

it's me again.

Could you also post a image of your definition please where the components are visible?

 

Best,

Martin.

Comment by Martin Dembski on September 29, 2011 at 1:25am

Hi Michael,

 

did you used the Rhino Mesh From Points command to create a solid metaball?

 

Best,

Martin.