recursively offsetting curve on surface

by Anne Romme

Nov 16, 2010

Hi,

Is it possible to recursively offset a curve on a sphere without scripting?

The offset distance is a function of the previous offset distance.
I am trying to make a latitude-longitude grid on a sphere

Any help would be appreciated.
Anne
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    David Rutten

    Hi Anne,

    I'm afraid recursion is out at the moment. There's no way to feed an output value of a component back in. I saw your sphere division problem but couldn't come up with a better approach. I agree it is pretty horrendous the way it's done now. Writing some sort of loop mechanism has been on the list for a long time.

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    David Rutten
    david@mcneel.com
    Seattle, WA
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    Nov 16, 2010

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      Evert Amador

      Hi Anne,

      What is the function of the offset distance?

      I think it is possible to produce a closed form sequence where the input is a list of numbers and the function solves the equation for every number without the need of the previous value.

      Cheers

      Evert

      Nov 16, 2010