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It's possible to make someting like this ?
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/SCULPTS/scherk.html

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/GEN/

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Hi Guyver

There are two Scherk scripts on the forum. (Search for +Scherk)

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6524.1

- Brian

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After considerable manipulation a 4 hole Scherk2 surface was created from the basic uv curves.
Only one quadrant of open curves was used. The ends were connected with a through point curve, and then mirror and revolve to get 4 sets.
The through point curves were blended 4 times, and the 8 curves joined. Then network worked quickly. A 3 point circle trimmed the rounded ends.
Vertical copy and revolve of the surface enabled join to work.

Attachments:
ScherkExample4_15.7z

Image Attachments:
Scherk2_4hole.png 

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The work goes faster than estimated. A lot of bugs fixed. A lot of small improvements added.
First beta will be today evening.

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Suspense! :)

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It will be a long, long night ...

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Sounds great Max, thanks very much for sharing it!

- Michael

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First beta of the nodeeditor :)

Main change:
- The Frame and Point types replaced with the PointArray type. This new type supports 3d arrays of points. For each point you can set x-y-z coordinates, three rotation angles, scale.

Other changes:
Added powerful Math nodes (Basic/Math and Arrays/GenArray)

Now you can add and remove optional input/output slots (right click on a node title to add slot, right click on a slot to remove it)

More intelligent selection tools
You can use shift+left mouse button or middle mouse button to select multiple nodes. Now you can easily move them around. Multiple delete doesn't work at the moment.
Slider and Knob nodes doesn't steal focus anymore when you use them.

You can use mouse wheel to zoom in and out

Added math support for property input fields. For example, you can set variables: a: -pi, radius: 2*pi+10 etc

Visual bugs fixed

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Thanks Max
Fantastic work!

- James

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Hello Max,

after a quick test - excellent! Everything seems to work. Another Masterpiece!

Many thanks!
Karsten

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Amazing
Thanks

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Hi Max,

I'm very pleased to know that your NodeEditor project is still under developing...

Thank you very much for your efforts and for the not ordinary quality of your plugin!
It's something like a very precious pearl, in moi's treasure chest.

I never seriously played with your plugin, so i decided to begin.

At the moment i have just a few questions.

For example, just to begin with some simple tests, i wondered what are the steps needed in order to create a "pointarray" object.
I mean...i see that the "Curve" object requires a "pointarray".
So, how generate this kind of object, starting, let's say, from a selection of point objects ?

Thanks again for your great work and have a nice day.

Marco.

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Hi Marco,

At the moment I wrote just a core engine of this node system. First beta version has been released, but most of the functions are still unavailable.
Now we need to write nodes. Karsten already wrote a lot of nodes which we can use with the new version. Wait for a while.

>>So, how generate this kind of object, starting, let's say, from a selection of point objects ?
Right now only three nodes can create a pointarray objects: GenArray, Point and FRotate.

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Hi Max,
I notice that we can now zoom in and out which is excellent.
I'm running MoI on a Surface Pro 4 and the Node Editor UI is a bit to small for my old eyes.
Is it possible to enlarge the UI for high definition Monitors.
If not no problem can work with Windows 10 magnifier.
Many thanks for sharing your work it's keeping my old brain active.
Cheers
Barry

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Hi Max,

Thank you for your prompt reply.
I will try to use some of Karsten'nodes while waiting of your upgrades.

From a software developer to another one, my congratulations for the results of your efforts.

Marco.

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Hi Barry,

Extract litegraph-editor-hd.zip file to nodeedit/css folder (overwrite the old css-file)
Also extract moi-litegraph.0.41.zip to nodeedit/core folder to enable >1 zoom levels.

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Hi Max,
many thanks it's great.
Barry

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Karsten,

""""""""""""after a quick test - excellent! Everything seems to work. Another Masterpiece!""""""""""""""""""

Apparently all your existing nodes need to be re-written?

They all error out for me on new node system. Just to be clear.

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Hello BurrMan,

that's correct. Most of the nodes has to be rewritten or need an update - so I started allready. And yes - everything in the new beta seems to work:-)

At the moment I study Max code - especially the pointarray and the frames. The changes here, are the most important at the moment, to get the nodes work.

Have a nice day
Karsten

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I've been gone a long while...so I'm a bit confused...is this the "official" path for parametric in Moi3d?

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