{"id":84,"date":"2013-05-20T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T02:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alrichardson.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2013-08-05T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:41:21","slug":"generative-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Generative coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep coming back to procedural generation. Something about the unpredictable nature of parametric design really piques my interest.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve begun scripting a system that will be the basis of a generative project, here it is:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:python decode:true\">import maya.cmds as cmds\r\nimport random\r\n\r\ncurveNumber = 1\r\ncurveName = 'string' + str(random.randrange(1,100))\r\ncount = 0\r\n\r\nfor i in range(0,curveNumber):\r\n    pointNumber = random.randrange(4,100)\r\n    pointArray = [(0,0,0)] * pointNumber\r\n    cmds.curve( name = curveName + str(count).zfill(3), degree = 3, point = pointArray )\r\n    pointCount = 0\r\n    directionX = (random.random() -0.5 )\r\n    directionY = (random.random() -0.0 )\r\n    directionZ = (random.random() -0.5 )\r\n    curveAmount = 0.00001 * random.randrange(1,100)\r\n    for i in range(0,int(pointNumber)):\r\n        oldCurveAmount = curveAmount\r\n        cmds.setAttr( curveName + str(count).zfill(3) + '.controlPoints' + str([pointCount]), pointCount * directionX * curveAmount, pointCount * directionY, pointCount * directionZ * curveAmount )\r\n        curveAmount = curveAmount * 1.1\r\n        print curveAmount\r\n        print oldCurveAmount\r\n        pointCount += 1\r\n    count +=1<\/pre>\n<p>This script creates curves of\u00a0different\u00a0lengths and CV counts, then arcs them in different directions. 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