Thanks for your help Vivose. I'm getting closer. I posted the newest version. There is probably a lot of fluff. But it's closer to being useful. Next I want to figure out how a can put a toggle in to effect the visibility of the lines in X and Y and also the mirroring. I don't even know if that is possible?
Thanks again. On Nov 3, 1:09 pm, visose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a similar doubt recently. I was doing in grasshopper a building > for a competition that had a sort of spiral form. I found it easier to > do everything referencing the origin (0,0,0) and at the end of the > definition merge all the geometry to one move component. You can > probably do it in different ways, I guess it's still early for a > grasshopper "best practices". In your case maybe you just need a move > component at the beginning only for the points and everything should > fit to its place, this will reduce the duplication of lines, but i'm > not sure. > > On Nov 3, 2:28 pm, opposablethumbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thanks Vivose. > > > I'm going to try this out. At what point do I place a move component > > to be able to place the drawn grid? I was having problems figuring > > that out. > > > Thanks for your help. > > > On Oct 31, 4:20 pm, visose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As you have it right now, you are creating lines with different > > > lengths. The screenshots appear to be lines of the same length > > > separated using this sequence. For this, the fibonacci series should > > > be used for the starting point of the line, but for the length of the > > > line you must use the last number of the series. To retrieve this > > > number use the list item component and link it to the slider that > > > defines the number of items in the series. > > > > On Oct 31, 6:56 pm, opposablethumbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've been playing around with all the posted files for a few months to > > > > get my feet wet, and now I'm starting from scratch. > > > > > I came across a program called Atrise Golden Section and I thought > > > > about trying to replicate it's function in Grasshopper to overlay in > > > > designs drawn up in Rhino. > > > > > Here are links to > > > > screenshots.http://www.atrise.com/golden-section/screenshots.php > > > > It is a gridded overlay that you can move around and scale on screen > > > > and it's grid lines are drawn based of the Golden Ratio. You can also > > > > change the grid's starting point so it scales out in one of the four > > > > quadrants. Also you can just have lines offset from a centerline > > > > using the same scale. > > > > > I posted the core of what I've done so far in the files area. I cut > > > > all my deadend attempts out of the file, there's been so many that I > > > > am completely lost at this point. And I'm thinking that what I've > > > > done so far isn't going to get me where I want to go. > > > > > If somebody has time and is willing to take a look and just give me a > > > > general description of what I need to do, I'd appreciate it. I'm not > > > > looking for someone to do it for me because I'd like to use this idea > > > > to get a grasp on Grasshopper. Thank you.
