Shatter Component

How do I'm supposed to understand, what the parameters list tA means OR tB? :D

WHAT is tA? WHAT is tB?

Thank you for your help and advice ...

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Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on May 28, 2013 at 7:17am

Parameters on the first curve and parameters on the second curve ... BEAUTIFUL! ... In which way are these parameters produced? From start to end I guess? ... I guess I'm confused with CCX and Shatter components ...

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on May 28, 2013 at 7:47am

How does these beautiful ccx and shatter work together?!

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 28, 2013 at 8:47am

the Hour's up....

Firstly I found David Rutten's RhinoScript 101 primer to be very useful in understanding Rhino Geometry. There is also a RhinoPython version but you can ignore the actual programming code for the time being and just read the explanation of what is fundamentally going on with in Rhino.

http://wiki.mcneel.com/developer/rhinoscript101

http://download.rhino3d.com/IronPython/5.0/RhinoPython101/

Here is an extract from Page 46:

Secondly as you have already worked out (within 3 minutes) that t represents the parameter of the curve tA being that of Curve A and tB that of Curve B.

Yes, they start usually at the beginning and end at the end.

Below is an image of three Curves, Red --> Curve A, Blue and Green --> Curves B

You will see from the Output of the Shatter Component that there are 3 curves on the First Branch and 2 and the Second.

This is because GH has handled the Intersection of these curves separately and placed the results on multiple paths.

So the Blue Curve intersects the Red curve Twice and the Green Curve only once. If you wanted the results to be all of the intersection points then you can Flatten the list

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on May 28, 2013 at 11:06am

flatten ... thank you!

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on May 28, 2013 at 3:22pm

Lets say I have a point instead of a curve ...

I mean: NOT two curves

I mean: ONE Point and ONE Curve

How do I shatter the hell out of the curve at this point? How do I know what parameter this point have on the curve. I found: "Point on Curve" ... But this won't help here, will it?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 28, 2013 at 4:46pm

[Curve CP] will give you the parameter of the closest point on a curve of a Point in 3D space

Permalink Reply by Ahmed Hossam on May 28, 2013 at 6:33pm

Are you a human being? ;)

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