points and object orientations

Hi,

I'm very new to GH, so I hope this question makes sense. I made a magnetic displacement field with a number of attractor and displacement points. I wanted to attach an object on each point in the field. However I wanted to be able to differentiate which object gets attached to a point based on distance from that central point. Also, i would be open to any other suggestions on rules that could differentiate the orientation or dimension of an object based on distance from the central point.

Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by taz on November 4, 2009 at 4:05pm

You'd have to post a screenshot to help describe what you are doing.

If you're looking at magnetic fields you might be interested in JellyFish by Daniel Piker of the Space Symmetry Structure blog.

-taz

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Permalink Reply by Mae on November 4, 2009 at 8:50pm

Hi Taz,

Thanks. I actually already have a magnetic field working the way I want it to. I just want to be able to place an object at each point thats been created from the surrounding scatter field. I want to divide the points up based on their distance to the central point then set an object type to them. I'll try to upload a screen shot.

Mae

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Permalink Reply by Mae on November 4, 2009 at 8:54pm

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Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on November 5, 2009 at 2:23am

use the distance between two points component. then, use the sort component and co-sort the feild points to order them by distance from the center point.

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