Stroke-Starting-Point?

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Stroke-Starting-Point?

Postby tom » 07 Dec 2013, 18:09

Hey,

one of the first things I wanted to do involved math relative to the first point I hit on the canvas when my stroke starts, basically the initial, static X/Y position of the current stroke.
I could think of tons of interesting things being done relative to this point but wasn't able to find a node for that.

Is this something I missed or is it missing?
If the latter, I'd like to make this into a feature request :-)
Should be easy enough I hope.

Thanks a lot,

Tom

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Re: Stroke-Starting-Point?

Postby heho » 08 Dec 2013, 02:57

I thought about an easy way to make this possible without having to make nodes for one specific use only:

a buffer node working like this
2 inputs:
  • a vector/value
  • a time(value)
the output is either a vector / value and is basicly the last input before time

a buffer step node
works like the buffer but every time it reads the first input and stores and uses it as the output until it is overwritten after time seconds

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Re: Stroke-Starting-Point?

Postby u2bleank » 09 Dec 2013, 09:04

tom : Nice idea, I add your suggestions into our request database.
heho : it will be more simple ;)

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Re: Stroke-Starting-Point?

Postby tom » 09 Dec 2013, 09:17

Thanks a lot u2bleank - I thought it would be a rather simple but powerful addition, for things that go circular around the start point or change based on the distance to it.

I also wondered about value visualization. I use to work with a lot of nodal systems and really enjoy if there is a way to see what numbers I'm working with. Makes the math so much easier to get right the first time ;-)

One other thing I would enjoy is deformation of the shapes - would be cool to work with 2D-Perlin-Noise deformed Circles that change shape by distance traveled for instance... ;-)

Cheers,

Tom

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Re: Stroke-Starting-Point?

Postby u2bleank » 09 Dec 2013, 09:37

I also wondered about value visualization. I use to work with a lot of nodal systems and really enjoy if there is a way to see what numbers I'm working with. Makes the math so much easier to get right the first time ;-)


Yes definitly. the UI has already been deisgned but we must implement it..

One other thing I would enjoy is deformation of the shapes - would be cool to work with 2D-Perlin-Noise deformed Circles that change shape by distance traveled for instance... ;-)


+1 for this well known suggestion ;)

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Re: Stroke-Starting-Point?

Postby tom » 09 Dec 2013, 09:46

Cool :-)

I really look forward to the further development - I think you have a winner there.

Cheers,

Tom


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