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Earl Washington commented on Chris Wilkins's video

Hyperbolic Paraboloid Origami

"HOW DO YOU GET FOUR TO FOLD TOGETHER - LIKE IN FOUR QUADRANTS"

May 9, 2012

Evan Chakroff replied to Earl Washington's discussion Joining hats to form a polyhedron!!!

"what kind of hats? Baseball? Beret? Fedora?"

May 8, 2012

Earl Washington posted a discussion

Joining hats to form a polyhedron!!!

hello all,i have one folding definition similar to chris wiggins hyperbolic paraboloid. im trying to join hats to form a polyhedron. however, everything works fine but at one point the planes overlap as it folds. tried so many different things and still coming up with the same problem. any ideas???See More

May 7, 2012

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David Rutten replied to Earl Washington's discussion Match a plane with a vector

"You could do it now using a Rotate component and some plane components, but it will be nice to just do this simple task in one step. -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

Apr 29, 2012

Dedackelzucht replied to Earl Washington's discussion Match a plane with a vector

"looking forward, many thanks DeDackel"

Apr 29, 2012

David Rutten replied to Earl Washington's discussion Match a plane with a vector

"I just wrote an Adjust Plane component which performs minimal rotation on a plane until its Z-Axis points in the same direction as a custom vector. Will be available in the next release. -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

Apr 29, 2012

David Rutten replied to Earl Washington's discussion PLANE COMPONENTS!!!

"You can create a Plane from an origin point and a normal vector, but the rotation of this plane is under-constrained and therefore unpredictable. You may get a more consistent result by rotating an existing plane to match a new z-direction. However…"

Apr 29, 2012