multiple attractor points in a circles grid

Hi all,

need help with an easy one.

Building a circles grid with multiple attraction points that control the circles scale.

Ive seen the tutorial but it works just for 2 attractors. I need to add as many as i want.

Ive been trying but never works..

Cheers!!

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multiple attarctors.ghx, 410 KB

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on October 21, 2010 at 2:01pm

use the pull point component...it works wonders. From the distance output you will need to remap those value to correspond with the range of radii you want for your circles...

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on October 21, 2010 at 2:05pm

Check out the attached user object. The tooltip has info on the inputs.

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on October 21, 2010 at 2:14pm

EDIT: changed it so it shows in a more appropriate subcategory.
in the tooltip the [] should be [...]

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Simple Attractor.ghuser, 9 KB

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 21, 2010 at 3:35pm

How about the attached? A variable number of attractors basically means grafting the data so you can compare each point with every attractor, then perform mass addition on the total set of forces.

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MultipleAttractors.ghx, 82 KB

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Permalink Reply by Javier Ruiz on October 22, 2010 at 9:36am

Wow, thanks a lot to everyone. Really grateful. Cheers!!

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Permalink Reply by otsenre on December 5, 2011 at 10:52am

hi,

i have a question, if i need to use the attractor points on a closed planar curve or on a surface which comand should i use . Those ghx are all on grid i'm askimg how i can parametrize a closed curve or a surface at the same way ..

thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by annie med on December 9, 2011 at 1:48am

THANK YOU!! I've been watching tutorials to no avail all day (todays my first day using this). I made a really nice pattern to have laser cut on fabric (for the skin of a building). Sweeeeet!

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Permalink Reply by David on June 10, 2012 at 1:10pm

David,

Thank you, this is a great and simple solution! I'm trying modify this definition to extrude voronoi surfaces. I have it working with extruding the circles that are placed at the voronoi centers, but when I try to connect the extrude component to the voronoi surfaces, it lags forever and then produces a random result, or sometimes, uniform extrusions. Can't figure out what I'm missing! Any thoughts? Files attached.

Here it is working with the extruded circles...

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Permalink Reply by Jissi Choi on June 11, 2012 at 12:26am

Just Graft a data List or Flatten a data Tree

otherwise it calculates NxN times..

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Permalink Reply by David on June 11, 2012 at 10:40am

Thanks Jissi, that worked perfectly!

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Permalink Reply by David on June 17, 2012 at 2:43pm

Thanks Jissi, I'm trying to apply this same technique but Im running into issues. I'm trying to scale the voronoi cells based on an attractor but can only get it to account for one point, even when setting multiple points. I tried setting up a graft component between the area and diet component but that locked up the definition, as well as your suggestions above. Any thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by David on June 11, 2012 at 10:39am

Also, this is probably a stretch but I've been trying to wrap my head around a strategy for extruding the surfaces where the top cap is angled/sloped up towards the attractor, rather than flat . Any ideas on a possible direction for this?