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    • V Offline
      victor hugo
      last edited by

      Very interesting plugin...
      where can I get the CPOINT creator or a CPOINT plugin?

      Thanks.

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      • cottyC Offline
        cotty
        last edited by

        @unknownuser said:

        Very interesting plugin...
        where can I get the CPOINT creator or a CPOINT plugin?
        Thanks.

        Here

        my SketchUp gallery

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        • pilouP Offline
          pilou
          last edited by

          Why not put in the first post the link for the Delauney3.rb by Tig ?
          It was not so evident to find it! 😮
          here the link! 😉

          Else works fine 😄

          voro01.jpg


          voro02.jpg

          Frenchy Pilou
          Is beautiful that please without concept!
          My Little site :)

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          • I Offline
            ivreich
            last edited by

            VoronoiXY Error

            Hi MattC

            I'm still having problems creating a simple 2D Voronoi. Have attached the file with the cpoints and the error message.

            Conic curve seems to work fine...

            Cheers

            joel

            UPDATE: I see what the problem is. It's still the co-linear points. The plugin will not work if any of the points are colinear in either the X or Y axis.

            Something that can be fixed?


            SU File


            Error message

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
              last edited by

              And about Conic Curve
              Does this possible ?

              conic_wanted.jpg

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
                last edited by

                Hello

                For the Voronoï (with SU V7 tested) images previous post
                All works fine except I must click on the Ok Botton for have a voronoï polygon for each new polygon! 😲 😮

                Tig triangle works for a selection of points in one pass! 👍

                And for the conic curve : does it possible to have the same for a selection of faces ?
                Click on each polygon is some tiedious when you have thousand of them!

                voronoi2.jpg

                EDIT : About Voronoï xy

                @unknownuser said:

                I must click on the Ok Botton

                Works fine in V8 ! ☀

                But something must be made for the UNDO !!! 😉
                Here you must make each CTRL+ Z for each polygon ! 😮

                Frenchy Pilou
                Is beautiful that please without concept!
                My Little site :)

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                  MattC
                  last edited by

                  Hi Pilou, Hello everybody

                  Currently I am rewriting the whole Voronoi 2D plug-in.
                  It is going painfully slow, but I have a lot of other things on my head right now.
                  Why I am completely redesigning it? Well my understanding of Ruby got a bit better, and also I got some new ideas how to tackle this problem.
                  What I want to accomplish:

                  1. prepare a nice flow chart for a process of creating 2D Voronoi diagram
                  2. based on that define set of standard functions that will be used
                  3. compose final version of Voronoi 2D plug-in
                  • do steps 1-3 with 3D Voronoi
                  • do steps 1-3 with Conic Curve
                  • do steps 1-3 with random point generator (2D and 3D)

                  Shall I succeed then next step would be a "fracture tool" similar to one in Blender.

                  @ Pilou
                  So to create voronoi diagram You have to iterate through the message boxes i=1, i=2 ... etc?
                  I think that that was one of the first complains and I have disabled it in one of later versions. If not I can do it one more time. the same applies to UNDO in one step. Conic curve on all faces in selection was also made, but I don't know if it was made an official release.

                  Your last question is more complicated. Conic curve plug-in was made as a response to the topic in the first post. There You can see that there are multiple curves inside polygons. And all the polygons are convex. So the conic curve , which is a construction based on 3 points (let's say A B and C), is always located inside the smaller angle near the point B. In Your case polygon is Concave and conic curve will go outside. Is it possible to force it inside? Well it is.
                  See explanation of how the conic curve is made in first post. You have to set an offset that will sit well inside, and also play with a weight value. But in this version You cannot set different weights for every vertex. Maybe I will get to that in one of the future releases.

                  Stay tuned for more details. I will try to make a nice blog (possibly later an e-book) about it.

                  Cheers
                  Matt

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    Cool ! ☀

                    For the OK Button that must be something between V7 V8
                    not works in V7, works in V8

                    Frenchy Pilou
                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                    My Little site :)

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                    • N Offline
                      notareal
                      last edited by

                      MattC, that sounds great! Cannot wait.

                      Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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                      • M Offline
                        MattC
                        last edited by

                        So it is officially begonnen:
                        spin-heads.blogspot.com

                        Cheers
                        Matt

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                        • pilouP Offline
                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          Appetizing first page! ☀

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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                            Mra
                            last edited by

                            Hey, nice plugin - but I do not know how to use.

                            Every option simply brings up a cmd.exe for a millisecond and nothing ever happens.

                            The steps in the OP are unclear to me? How do we first generate the CP points?

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                              pilou
                              last edited by

                              @unknownuser said:

                              How do we first generate the CP points?

                              You just draw them as you want!

                              First image

                              One rectangle as plane background where you draw as you want the Control points
                              DON'T erase the "background"
                              Select points
                              Call the plug
                              Select points
                              Erase points

                              Second image
                              Select lines
                              Call Lattice Maker by Tig
                              Call Random Painter by Chris Fullmer

                              Selection Toys for select only points by ThomThom

                              Lattice Maker by Tig

                              Random Painter by Chris Fullmer

                              http://www.3dsaloon.fr/phpbb3/download/file.php?id=3741&mode=view/rokbox.jpg

                              http://www.3dsaloon.fr/phpbb3/download/file.php?id=3743

                              Frenchy Pilou
                              Is beautiful that please without concept!
                              My Little site :)

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                                Mra
                                last edited by

                                Thank you very much for the help.

                                But that's the first problem I had, I'm not sure of any tool in SketchUp to draw CP points, is this a plugin? I have no issue with the rest of the steps just how to initially draw the points.

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                                • cottyC Offline
                                  cotty
                                  last edited by

                                  For this, I use the plugin point from Matt666...

                                  my SketchUp gallery

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    Personnally I use the Old Projection Toolbar by Didier Bur for the Cpoints! 😉
                                    because there is also some crazzy tools on it : mutiple PushPull random and the crazzy
                                    Extrude line! 👍
                                    old Projection

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                      Mra
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks!

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                                      • pilouP Offline
                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        With Wings3d and plugin Manifold

                                        Sinon Cell frature dans Blender tout aussi gratoche 😄

                                        Frenchy Pilou
                                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                        My Little site :)

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                                          Arkinsaw
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi Matt,

                                          Thanks for your script, can't wait to use it!

                                          Unfortunately I've recently bought 2013Pro and I'm having nightmares trying to installing the script. I run a Macbook 10.9 - With Google Sketchup 8, the plugins folder used to be located under Macintosh HD/Users/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins but for some reason there is no default folder for Sketchup 2013 under the same path.

                                          I've found that there is a "Show Package Contents" context menu on Applications/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp.app that reveals a PlugIns folder but my copying and pasting the script into this doesn't work either.

                                          Not sure if you have any recommendations? Would you be able to upload your script onto Sketchup Extension Warehouse? I looked for it there also but silly me couldn't find it?

                                          Anyway, thanks again! Really appreciate any help!

                                          Arky

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                                            Box
                                            last edited by

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