Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Week 1 Tutorials

 I modified the simple line from the tutorial to create a series of concentric tubes around the line, with random radii.

I created a tube around the line, then set the radius of that tube to a random series of numbers.




I changed the connecting line to an arc with a tangent along the z-axis.
I just changed the line node to an arc node and added a vector with a random z-value to the tangent.



 I modified the rectangle generation section to be more flexible, then added a vertical translation series, combined with an incremental rotation, to produce the helix look. (Note: The double helix is unintentional, it results from a rotation-per-rectangle value of near 180-degrees.)
This definition taught me how to combine lists effectively and how to add modifiers to input data.