Journal Entry For
Module 4 - Rise and Shine
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- A few sentences describing your modeling approach for each stage
- A brief description of your design outlining the parameters that can be used to flex and dynamically change your structure
- Part 2
- Modeling Approach
- Sin wave is created and then extruded as a surface with panels on the surface just like previous assignments. One difference is the fixed size of 4” x 8” for each panel which means the numbers of bricks on columns and rows have to follow not only the width-to-height ratio of the image, but also the fixed size of 4” x 8”. After that, since the node reads pixels and panels in different orders, flip functions have to be implemented to display the image in a right orientation. The final step is to adjusting the height of each brick in terms of color brightness.
- Flexible Parameters
- Wall length, number of waves, and sin wave amplitude. Since the fixed brick size and the width-to-height ratio of the image, changing the wall length is also changing the wall height and the number of bricks correspondingly.
- Part 1
- Modeling Approach
- Create an arc and translate it to the desired height as the wall height and then create a surface between them. Apply panels on the surface and make sure each panel is a square by applying a function controlling their ratio which means once the number of panels on the row is determined, so does the one on the column. Extract pixels from the image and match them with the panels. Since the panels and the pixels are counted in different orders, I put panels into lists of columns and transpose them so that they are aligned with the pixels. Also iimplement the flip functions to make sure the image can be displayed properly.
- Flexible Parameters
- Arc
- Center, radius, start and end angles
- Wall height
- Length divider (Resolution)
- With them, the image wall can be changed into different dimensions while ensuring the resolution.
