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Introduction - Alfredo
I'm a retired Data Engineer. I'm interested in Python Programming, Geometric Algebra, AI, Animations, Blender for Animations. Looking forward to having fun with the available courses.
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@Alfredo Ramirez There's a lot of good stuff here. My main goal is modeling charge field atoms and molecules but I would love to learn Blender well enough to make math and science animations too. Thanks for sharing.
Introduce Yourself
Make sure to create an Introduction post. 🄳 I would love to say hello! šŸ‘‹ I created an introduction template post for you if you need some help https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NL4RUnbrlplwKCTnrdos3IgyJbTMmO_EcLD6QmegG8w/edit?usp=sharing
Introduce Yourself
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@Lucas Cooper-Bey Welcome, love your enthusiasm!
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@Lucas Cooper-Bey "putting this all together"? You're mistaken Sir. As far as I know, Victor Stepanov is solely responsible for this free Skool. I'm a student learning from his videos and lessons most every day and am indebted to him as well as to others here who have also shared their work. Welcoming students like yourself is one small way I'm able to show my support and gratitude.
Introduction
Hi i am chaitanya, I recently completed my BTech mechanical engineering and I am planning to pursuing a master's in mechanical Design. To upgrade my skills, i believe this experience will help me in my future studies and carrier. Thankyou
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Welcome. Work hard and it will.
Dominoes
I’ve been playing around a bit with numpy and Blender. I’ve managed to create a scene with falling dominoes arranged in a spiral. Full disclosure – I had a bit of help from AI (ok, a lot of help from AI) in setting up the spiral and rotating the dominoes properly. But I think it looks ok. Thought people might like to see how I did it with rigidbodies. So run the script, and to see the animation, just hit the play button on the Timeline.
Dominoes
0 likes • Jul 7
David, are you sure? My project creates parametric spirals using Numpy but I didn't install it, I just tried including "import numpy as np" below "import bpy" and was happy to find it worked.
Any Animation Suggestions?
The script is written with Blender 4.4.3. Please pardon my many working errors. Victor, Thanks again for the ā€˜collections and instances’ script you provided. I had no understanding or appreciation for that possible project alternative till you suggested it. Since then, I’ve been slowly learning the subject matter and changing my code to work with stack instances. For example, the build_all_stacks() function’s instance names can also work as 3D text. I believe all my basic modeling requirements: 1. assembling 4 proton collections (shown co-located at (0,0,0) in the image) to form 144 proton stack instances; 2. adding up to 19 properly oriented and positioned stacks to make 1-90 atoms; 3. properly orienting and positioning atoms to make 3D molecules; 4. and including 1 or 2 bonding site stack swap out modifications; can all be accomplished with collections and instances instead of objects. The more atoms the merrier, with little to no increase in processing demands. Nevertheless the group collections, instances and 3D text included in the image seems massive to me. The addon is gone, but I can rewrite an improved version later. My next main consideration is animation. For starters, each and every proton group instance should contain constantly spinning left or right protons, electrons, and charge intake vortices. The proton instances will cast particle emissions outward from its equatorial plane while the instance is also spinning and moving linearly in space. Please note that my initial, brief Linear_and_Angular_Motion() function that operates on a proton group instance contains instructions from two of your tutorials. Given all that, I hope I’m not asking for too much, might you be able to make any further suggestions or recommendations on how I might go about implementing such animations?
Any Animation Suggestions?
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Your intentions seem perfectly admirable to me.
0 likes • Jul 1
Victor Stepanov wrote. ā€œLet me know how it goes.ā€ Yes, Sir, Thank you, We have Joy. Your add_continuous_rotation() function makes my proton group components spin. All vertically spin axis aligned protons, electrons, and charge intakes (not including the white, cd disc-like equatorial charge emissions) are spinning left or right, (blue or red), at different rates. Spin markers have been added to the smooth shaded protons and electrons to make their spinning visible. The 4 spirals are now more like the charge intake vortices into the electron vacant top or bottom proton pole they re intended to display. There are still three spins that need to conform to your your function: 1. In addition to its axial spin (already included), the electron should also have a small orbital motion over the proton pole, that will no doubt need an empty and/or Bezier circle to get it to work, and 2 & 3. The overall proton group itself will spin axially as well as travel linearly through space. Eventually electron/proton groups will be able to collide and sometimes bond together. At left in the image’s x=-8 plane, are the four proton group collections (BL_Collection, BR_C..., TL_C..., TR_C…). I gotta admit it took me a couple of weeks effort and frustration before I succeeded in moving the source group collections away from the (0,0,0) origin while maintaining intact instances. Just in time too, all the remaining proton groups are instances that also work with the continuous rotation function. At x=0, are the four instance types, displayed in a cubic configuration with their source collections. Next toward positive x are twelve two proton vertical stack instances generated from the build_all_stacks() function. I should try spinning them faster! The only ā€œproblemā€ I see is that the centers of side-by-side vertically aligned B and T protons are no longer at the same z-value, I added or subtracted (+/-1) one from the first four instances at the left so they are horizontally aligned, but the remaining instance locations within the build_all_stacks() script may need to include a consistent collection group center.
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Robert McBride
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