Sometimes hexagons just make better shapes than squares do. With that in mind, I decided to have some fun creating fields of hexagons, and then doing stuff with them. I created a script that fills a rectangular field with hexagons, then moves and colors the hexagons according to some simple algorithms. The results are pretty… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Turing Pattern Generator
A while back, I was looking for a quick way to generate some Turing reaction-diffusion patterns. You know, as a way to pass a lazy Saturday afternoon. What I came a across was Cyclic Symmetric Multi-Scale Turing Patterns by Jonathan McCabe, and a number of links to implementations of some of his algorithms. One of these implementations… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Voxel Filling a Mesh
A colleague asked me about a basic voxelizing script he had run across. (Voxels are the 3-d equivalent of pixels — building blocks of a larger shape). It was rudimentary, but it got the job done most of the time. It made good use of the MFnMesh::allIntersections to determine where voxels should go on the… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
ITAA Indoor State Championship
The ITAA State Indoor Championship is coming up in mid-February. We have a North and South venue this year (one in Sycamore, and one in Belleville), to make the drive easier.
Isometric Camera Script for Maya
UPDATED: New script, see below. Sometimes it’s useful to render 3-D objects in ways that will tile very well in 2-D. Some uses for this are when making web site backgrounds or in making 2.5-D artwork for games. The easiest way to do this is Isometric Projection — which results in all parallel lines in the scene… Continue Reading… Continue Reading