its also really fun top play around with cylindrical coordinates. There are some beautiful mathmatical curves like the RoseFunction or the hypotrochoid curve (spirograph).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrochoid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicycloid I've just posted some examples of these for grasshopper here: http://shift-lab.blogspot.com/ On Oct 18, 5:24 am, taz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An equally simple alternative would be to use expressions with the > create point component (instead of creating all the points within a > function component). > > What viscose suggested is probably a quicker if your going to be > changing your graphing functions a lot. They both do the same thing. > > http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/graphcurve2.png > > taz > > On Oct 17, 7:11 pm, visose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This is probably the simplest > > way:http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/graphcurve.jpg > > The graph is placed in the YZ plane instead of XY and I made the curve > > a pipe... don't ask me why. > > > On Oct 17, 11:20 pm, "a." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I want to generate a curve based on a mathematical equation (ie. > > > y=x^2). I have a function but don't know how to graph it to get a > > > curve. I want to do this for a range, say from -2 to 2. I want to look > > > at graphing other equations also.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
