my series of small random questions

Hi all !

i will use this thread to put short questions that require a simple answer.

OPEN QUESTIONS: none atm

i will check on this forum , on google and the Grasshopper primer before posting.
if you have the time, please do answer, i really appreciate the input!

here we go:

1. can i pick the widgets that load at startup?

2. on the Random Component, what does the "seed of random engine" input value refer to?

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on December 3, 2011 at 8:16am

sorry, meant GRAPH Mapper...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 3, 2011 at 9:23am

Ah, then no, because there is no guaranteed unique mapping from Y onto X. Only linear can be mapped this way, but beziers, gaussians, sines etc. etc. all might have multiple x's that generate the same y.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on December 3, 2011 at 5:12pm

yeah, figured, but i thought it might have a tree output.

Thanks for answering! (btw, i drew the graph and did it "phisically")

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on December 3, 2011 at 8:50am

Hi Andrei,

did you mean in the Graph Mapper? If yes, then that's called the inverse function and is not automatically derivable from the function itself in general. For some operations it is easy, though. At the moment the graph mapper does not support it.

- Giulio
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Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on December 3, 2011 at 5:14pm

thanks for your reply (interesting link)!