lembert.dome

I have been experimenting with Andrew Benson's Shatter recipe in various ways. I can't figure out how to format the z-plane to allow me to warp the plane and have all of the quads connect into a smooth shape.

As it is right now, if I warp the plane in any way, each quad also becomes individually warped. I assume that each quad must be individually warped just a fraction of the whole warpage, but I can't figure it out.

After many efforts on my part, I must concede ignorance. Here is a slight variation on a Shatter patch that Andrew posted recently. Anyone here who can shed some light on this for me?

shatter-z-plane

I am still working on this problem, but I feel as if I am shooting in the dark. All of my attempts to find a solution produce results that don't match up with my understanding of how this should be working.

I add a curve to the basic plane which is being drawn in quads using A. Benson's "Shatter" recipe. This causes the curve to be drawn correctly, but each individual quad is parallel to the xy-plane. I want to format the z-plane so that the quads are angled as part of the general curve of the plane.

I keep coming back to this but with no solution. Anyone want to try and tackle it? Here is the same patch as before, but with the curve drawn differently and an attempt at a solution in the second jit.gen object.

I am still working on this problem, but I feel as if I am shooting in the dark. All of my attempts to find a solution produce results that don't match up with my understanding of how this should be working. 

Let me restate the goal:
I add a curve to the basic plane which is being drawn in quads using A. Benson's "Shatter" recipe. This causes the curve to be drawn correctly, but each individual quad is parallel to the xy-plane. I want to format the z-plane so that the quads are angled as part of the general curve of the plane.

I keep coming back to this but with no solution. Anyone want to try and tackle it?  Here is the same patch as before, but with the curve drawn differently and an attempt at a solution in the second jit.gen object.

Here is the same patch again, but with a second mesh added which shows how I would like the first one to look:

allright, i am not sure if understood, your question properly, but i though i put this up just in case i did, it is not working good, but i am ill, on a friday night, so what the yeh

(in fact i dont think it is working the way you want it to, i have just checked again we done it now)

allright, i am not sure if understood, your question properly, but i though i put this up just in case i did, it is not working good, but i am ill, on a friday night, so what the yeh
(in fact i dont think it is working the way you want it to, i have just checked again we done it now)


I am running out the door at this moment, but I do believe you have shown me the way. I will sit down longer with it in a couple of hours. In order to use this with dynamic mesh shapes, I will try to implement this so that the that any z-plane shape can be expressed automatically in quads; you may have already made that possible, but I have to really look at it.

I'll post whatever I get out of this. For me, it is the most useful patch of the past 3 months. Thank you!

Yes!! You are a clever man.
I am running out the door at this moment, but I do believe you have shown me the way. I will sit down longer with it in a couple of hours. In order to use this with dynamic mesh shapes, I will try to implement this so that the that any z-plane shape can be expressed automatically in quads; you may have already made that possible, but I have to really look at it.

I'll post whatever I get out of this. For me, it is the most useful patch of the past 3 months. Thank you!


Now I recognize that the solution had been given already in this post: 

https://cycling74.com/forums/need-some-help-with-image-shatter

When I first saw it, however, I couln't see that it worked because I could not get a handle on the GenExpr syntax. Again, thanks for taking the time to point me in the right direction.

Now this does all that I need it to. I can feed in any sort of matrix and have it converted into quad format dynamically. This allows me to use some pretty amazing effects.

Here is a condensation of the patches already posted, allowing for some manipulation of the matrices, scaling, adding texture, etc. This is definitely a breakthrough for me, and I hope it helps some others as well. Thank you to strimbob and a big thanks to Wesley Smith and Andrew Benson!

Now I recognize that the solution had been given already in this post: https://cycling74.com/forums/need-some-help-with-image-shatter

Now this does all that I need it to. I can feed in any sort of matrix and have it converted into quad format dynamically. This allows me to use some pretty amazing effects. 

Here is a condensation of the patches already posted, allowing for some manipulation of the matrices, scaling, adding texture, etc. This is definitely a breakthrough for me, and I hope it helps some others as well. Thank you to strimbob and a big thanks to Wesley Smith and Andrew Benson!


Shatter Z-Plane