[Plugin] SurfaceGen (0.9.0b) — 28 April 2012

Diggsey

Thanks thomthom, but I've just used a rescue statement so it will fallback on the older version if the newer one fails. The first post has the updated version which works with v6.

TIG

There are also a few error-messages appearing in the Ruby Console that needs traps or begin/rescue forms [e.g. after you explode a special group]...
Some of them relate to your 'recurve' too...
But it's a neat tool

Diggsey

I've tried doing everything possible and can't seem to get any output in the ruby console from either plugin. Can you tell me exactly how to reproduce it?

d12dozr

@diggsey said:

I've no idea how to make such complicated structures as those ones you linked to, but you can get some interesting shapes by just mixing up a few of the built in functions:

sin, cos, tan, sinh, cosh, tanh, asin, acos, atan, asinh, acosh, atanh, atan2, hypot, sqrt, cbrt, log, log2, log10, ln, exp

and constants:

e, pi

Thank you for this, and considering my suggestions too!

TIG

@diggsey said:

I've tried doing everything possible and can't seem to get any output in the ruby console from either plugin. Can you tell me exactly how to reproduce it?
For example...

@unknownuser said:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method curve' for #<Sketchup::Group:0xa9d06fc>> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:17:in can_select_curve?'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:32:in `can_select_curve_selection?'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:352

When right clicking a tagged 'surfacegen-group'.
Explode the special surgfacegen-group and right-click gives

@unknownuser said:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method curve' for #<Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0xb440344>> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:17:in can_select_curve?'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:32:in can_select_curve_selection?' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:352 C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:17:in call'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:17

Erase that 'bounds' Instance then Select the surface...

@unknownuser said:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method curve' for #<Sketchup::Face:0xad7783c>> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:17:in can_select_curve?'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:32:in can_select_curve_selection?' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:352 C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:17:in call'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/recurve.rb:17

These all relate to 'recurve' reaction to 'surfacegen' entities ?
I did have a surgacegen error but I can't get it to reproduce now

notareal

Nice! Can't wait some more complex math sculptures... and naturally even more functionality, like with K3DSurf.

Little test...

pilou

In the V6
We can draw the "Box" but dialog's window don't opening
No error message, nothing in the Ruby console

Diggsey

@notareal
That's really nice! What's the equation you used?

@TIG
Make sure you have the latest version of Recurve. I fixed that bug with the last update which is why I couldn't reproduce the error. If you ever get the SurfaceGen error again let me know.

@Pilou
Just re-select the group with the select tool. It seems that the SelectionObserver doesn't fire when the selection is changed in code.

TIG

You are right, in that when I get v1.4 of 'recurve' I no longer get these errors with 'surfacegen'. However, I had v1.3 [with SUpv8] and there were no major changes except for making it SUpv6 friendly ?
Anyway... no more error messages... I'll try to break it

Builder Boy

Sponge-like object:

driven

this is great,

some odd behavior on the Mac... when run from plugins (like you should) I get this

Error; #<ArgumentError; Cannot convert argument to Sketchup;;Point3d>
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins/SURFACEGEN_Dir/surfacegen_tool.rb;266;in `add'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins/SURFACEGEN_Dir/surfacegen_tool.rb;266;in `getExtents'

if I put the surfacegen.rb into the folder do a restart and then load from Ruby Code Editor, I get this

(eval);428; warning; don't put space before argument parentheses
"Run aborted (error has occurred)"
(eval);428; warning; don't put space before argument parentheses
(eval);10; warning; already initialized constant SURFACEGEN_DIR
(eval);11; warning; already initialized constant GRAPH_SIZE
(eval);12; warning; already initialized constant WINDOW_HEIGHT
(eval);13; warning; already initialized constant ATTR_DICTIONARY
"Run aborted (error has occurred)"

but if I restart again and use as_pluginloader.rb to load it I get


/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/plugins/SURFACEGEN_Dir/surfacegen.rb;428; warning; don't put space before argument parentheses

it works, but has no tool button image...
the dialog keeps disappearing behind SU, but that needs show_modal on Macs
this is a 'normal' load i.e. image-no dialog

notareal

@diggsey said:

@notareal
That's really nice! What's the equation you used?

F(x,y,z) = 2-(cos(x+(1+sqrt(5))/2*y)+cos(x-(1+sqrt(5))/2*y)+cos(y+(1+sqrt(5))/2*z)+cos(y-(1+sqrt(5))/2*z)+cos(z-(1+sqrt(5))/2*x)+cos(z+(1+sqrt(5))/2*x))*16/(x*x+y*y+z*z)
[x]; -5, 5
[y]; -5, 5
[z]; -5, 5

There is plenty more at the k3dsurf forum.

notareal

Perhaps you could add some more functionality; like functions min, max and abs. Also allow use of arithmetic operations and pi in axes, like -2*pi.

TIG

You already have 'pi' [in lowercase] as a function?

thomthom

@diggsey said:

@Pilou
Just re-select the group with the select tool. It seems that the SelectionObserver doesn't fire when the selection is changed in code.

The SelectionObserver has always been very buggy: http://www.thomthom.net/software/sketchup/observers/

Diggsey

Just uploaded a fairly major update to the first post!

@driven
This should fix the issues with macs. It now uses cross-platform methods to locate and load resource, and uses show_modal rather than show on macs with the WebDialog.

@notareal
The axes now let you use an expression such as 2*pi

@d12dozr
Helpful error message are now shown when an expression is invalid.

TIG

Thanks

Error; #<ArgumentError; Cannot convert argument to Sketchup;;Point3d>
C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SURFACEGEN_Dir/surfacegen_tool.rb;270;in `add'
C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SURFACEGEN_Dir/surfacegen_tool.rb;270;in `getExtents'

One minor error in getExtents in surfacegen_tool.rb
Line #270 result.add @p0 if @state >= 0
can raise an error so adjusting it to
return if !@p0 or @p0.class!=Geom::Point3d; result.add @p0 if @state >= 0 might help - you could also add similar validity checks on the other points that are added to the extents ?

Diggsey

Ah, I knew I'd forgotten something

I've updated the first post. It shouldn't show those errors anymore.

TIG

Cool.
The 'rand' function is also interesting...

Diggsey

Just updated again fixing a small bug with the expression parser.

Check out this graph:

Equation = min(((max(abs(y)-(2sqrt(z+4)) ,(x+0.5abs((abs(y)+4)/3.5)/(1+(((abs(y)+4)/3.5)^2-2)^2)/2 2/(1+(z-2)^2)+abs(y/1.5)^3.5/7 ) )max( max( abs(x+0.15+(y/0.7)^2)+(z-1.3)/1.4,max(z-2.3, max( abs(x+0)/2.4 -1+2abs(1.5y)+(z+0.1)/2 , -z ))) ,x-0.8+z/2)-0.1 )*(abs(x+y^2/3)-0.2+abs(abs(z+1.8)-(0.5-(y/2)^2) )^1.2 )-0.1 ),( (x+1.2+abs(y)/10)^2+(abs(y)-1.1)^2/2.5+(z-2.3)^2/1.8-0.64))
x: -3 to 1
y: -4 to 4
z: -4 to 5.4

@TIG
Yes you can use any built in ruby function;)

@jim
I can't make the window resizable because it is shown and hidden by resizing it to a fixed value and zero respectively, and there is no API function to get the size of the window to save it. However, you can easily change the height of the window. Open surfacegen.rb in notepad and change the line "WINDOW_HEIGHT = 320" to about "WINDOW_HEIGHT = 350". You can try different values until you get what you want.