yes, it has a recursive nature, like the Koch curve and Mandelbrot fractals, but Lindenmayer introduced a kind of a descriptive grammar based on axioms/rules to the whole concept.



but you/it can produce all sort of "things"..

Hi Marco

Took a very quick and brief look at the .js code. As an amateur programmer, I would have to study the code a lot more, just to figure out what it is doing,
during a winter "less busy" season. I'm do not know if Nurbs would be appropriate or not?

- Brian

Hi Marco,

> if it might actual be possible to bring this "power" into MOI via scripts.

Well, it's probably not too terrible to do a hard coded single fixed lsystem by a script.

Doing one that allows a highly interactive UI with a lot of adjustable parameters and mouse drawing is different though, just even planning how the interaction will work is probably quite involved and time consuming to develop.

- Michael

Hi Michael!

..i've found ELSY to be more than sufficient in terms of INPUT parameters, but the HMI(Human-MOI-Interaction) is indeed another matter.

Just one question, is it actually possible to get a 3D DXF into MOI? I had no luck til now, but that might be something to do with the generators..most of them writing something like



into the file and i presume, that's a no-no for MOI like the mesh data in the 3DM file format.

Thanks,
Marco

Hi Marco, yeah MoI does not attempt to read polygon mesh data from DXF files, it can read LINE, CIRCLE, ARC, POINT, POLYLINE, LWPOLYLINE, ELLIPSE, or SPLINE entities out of the DXF file.

One possibility would be to use a mesh conversion program to convert the DXF file into an OBJ file and then use the OBJ to 3DM wireframe converter from here:
http://moi3d.com/resources#Obj23dmWireframe_converter

- Michael

So Sketchup or FreeCAd can make the conversion DXF OBJ ;) (in free)

http://www.freecadweb.org/
http://www.sketchup.com ... + http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=790 (obj exporter plugin)

http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/sketchup.html?fromsearch maybe only old free version import DXF so take the V6 ;)

Hi Michael,

I was wondering if jQuery can be used with MoI scripts?
(Please excuse ignorant question:-)

- Brian

Hi Brian,

> I was wondering if jQuery can be used with MoI scripts?

It should be possible to use in scripts contained inside of .htm files.

- Michael

Thank you Michael.
I'll have to do some research/learning, but not this week/month :-)

-Brian

I just developed some variations on a stock tree supplied by Plant Factory free learning version.

They work in Rhino OK (imported as .obj files) and can be assigned materials and rendered in Flamingo but the .3dm files are not openable in MoI as the are initially blocks and when exploded must become meshes also not readable by MoI.

Is this correct Michael?

It sure would be nice to be able to import meshes into MoI. Is that something for the future or is MoI simply not compatible with Rhino meshes? I know that there has been discussion of this previously but I kind of skipped over it.

cheers
eric

Hi eric,

> They work in Rhino OK (imported as .obj files) and can be assigned materials and rendered in
> Flamingo but the .3dm files are not openable in MoI as the are initially blocks and when exploded
> must become meshes also not readable by MoI.
>
> Is this correct Michael?

Yes, that's correct - MoI does not read polygon mesh objects out of 3DM files to use interactively. They will get loaded and stored internally for round tripping back out if you save the same file.


> It sure would be nice to be able to import meshes into MoI. Is that something for the future
> or is MoI simply not compatible with Rhino meshes?

Maybe something for the future - it brings up a lot of UI issues and potential confusion having multiple different kinds of objects which do not naturally interact with one another.

- Michael