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Northern Rock commented on Matt Ward's video

FireFly-test

"Great stuff..could you share a Grasshopper+Firefly definition please?"

Jan 22

Ben Sitler replied to Matt Ward's discussion Easiest Way To Remove Duplicates

"Oh I would be careful using list.contains on geometrical inputs. Try moving one of the points in your list 0.00000000001 units (basically a rounding error) and watch as it is included in the new list of unique points. Ben"

Oct 17, 2010

qwesxqe replied to Matt Ward's discussion Easiest Way To Remove Duplicates

"thanks, ti's useful"

Oct 1, 2010

Yurii replied to Matt Ward's discussion Easiest Way To Remove Duplicates

"Thank you! That it is necessary."

Sep 29, 2010

Matt Ward posted a video

Tri-Surf Demo

Tri-Surf is an attempt to model a variety of surfaces in real-time. It uses an Arduino to control 9 servos. Instructions are sent to the Arduino from Rhino m...

Jun 29, 2010

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FireFly-test

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testing out my new Arduino with FireFly. streaming photocell resistance to control the sphere's size.

Jun 28, 2010

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Matt Ward replied to Matt Ward's discussion Easiest Way To Remove Duplicates

"funny, I have that installed and I never saw that bit of it... oh well that was the start to a script I wrote to eliminate points that are inside a circle with 5 other points, essentially finding the points inside circles containing less than 6…"

May 2, 2010

Luis Fraguada replied to Matt Ward's discussion Easiest Way To Remove Duplicates

"if it is points / lines, check out kangaroo..."

May 1, 2010

Matt Ward posted a discussion

Easiest Way To Remove Duplicates

Just in case someone really needs a quick script to remove duplicate items, here it is in VB.net. This component has a single input of X that is a List( Of On3dPoint ) and output A. You should be able to change the type and it will still work.Dim uniquePoints As New List( Of On3dPoint )Dim found As Boolean = FalseDim i As Double = 0Dim j As Double = 0For i = 0 To x.Count - 1 Step 1Dim cPoint As On3dPoint = x.Item(i)found = FalseIf uniquePoints.Contains(cPoint) Thenfound = TrueEnd IfIf found =…See More

May 1, 2010

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Matt Ward replied to Dana Beligan's discussion Fractals - Sierpinski variation

"that is way technical, but it is very possible to implement in grasshopper. at the bottom of the page there is a link to Curt McMullen's software called "lim" that draws fractals in postscript format. if you know C enough to at least…"

Apr 11, 2010

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