stage 1 part 1
for stage 1 part 1 I used a Bob Ross image off Google.
In my design approach I wanted to make nearly everything parametric and easy to change.
I included sliders to change the image size, the number of panels, and the orientation of the image, so you could easilly reflect it horizontally, vertically, or both.
The hardest part for me was getting the image file to come through, for some reason the pathway was not working for along time and I ran into many errors.
stage 1 part 2
for part 2 I used part 1 as a base but made some large changes to accomodate part 2’s requirements.
First I changed my original lines to sin functions with parametric amplitudes, number of waves, and of course length and heigth. I then added the height based on both hue and brightness features at the end and made it so you could toggle between brightness nad hue with a number slider at the end. In the instructions it said to have the heights range from 4 to 36 inches, so my height min and max is .33 feet and 3 feet.
I struggled most with creating the sine function as originally I was trying to simply alter my original lines by that created more work for myself and I ended up just wasting a bunch of time and deleting the old to replace with the sine funtion.
stage 2
stage 2 was a shoot and a miss for me. I have an unresolved surface issue where my surface.byloft node wouldn’t function because the parameters didn’t align, although I looked through all the data points and there was not one discrepency.
I tried to resolve this issue by using polycurve function to make them one function all the way around, which resolved the first issue but created a second where I couldn’t get the panels to go on all the walls. I believe that I have much of the right nodes in place, but couldn’t get them to work together on this project.
I also struggled to use the rotating panels as all the examples provided used openings which followed different pricinpals with min/max functions.