Folding Spiral Mesh

by Jessica Beagelman

Oct 29, 2013

Hi, I have created a spiral through looking at sunflowers. From that I have created a mesh and exploded the faces, so they are all indepent.

I am trying to simulate the photo of the model attached. Rotating the faces through an axis using a graph mapper, so the spiral will rotate onto each other.

I am having trouble getting the faces to rotate indepently at the moment the whole this is roting as one mesh. I have tried adding another rotation axis and this causes a clash. It is not "crumpling".

Does anyone have suggestions on how to do this? Your help would be really appreciated

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    Florian Frank

    Hi Jessica,

    I don't understand how you want to fold this thing. Even from the model i can't figure out how you pretend the rotating of the faces.

    I've cleaned up the script a little bit and created the pattern to sort the faces in a nice way. This will help controlling the rotation later. 

    Take a look at it now and maybe you can explain how the rotation should work.

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    Oct 29, 2013