Would it be a lot of work/possible to use this "Win95 Pipes Screensaver" script in Rhino?

jarombra · March 8, 2019, 11:36pm

Would it be possible (and if so, very difficult) to convert this Python rewrite of the Windows 95 Pipes Screensaver code into Rhino, and use Rhino to to render out the pipe formations?

github.com

fogleman/pg/blob/master/examples/pipes.py

import pg
import random

PIPES = 8
SIZE = 16
TURN_PROBABILITY = 0.3
UPDATE_RATE = 0.05
RESTART_RATE = 30

DIRECTIONS = [
    (0, -1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0, 0),
    (1, 0, -1, 0), (1, 0, 1, 0),
    (2, 0, 0, -1), (2, 0, 0, 1),
]

COLORS = [
    0x1f77b4, 0xaec7e8, 0xff7f0e, 0xffbb78, 0x2ca02c, 0x98df8a,
    0xd62728, 0xff9896, 0x9467bd, 0xc5b0d5, 0x8c564b, 0xc49c94,
    0xe377c2, 0xf7b6d2, 0x7f7f7f, 0xc7c7c7, 0x17becf, 0x9edae5,
]

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Thanks!

Dancergraham · March 9, 2019, 1:54am

Should be fairly straightforward to port the geometry creation. Not sure about the animation and frame rate parts…

jarombra · March 9, 2019, 2:06am

Yeah, I’m hoping to just derive some still renders out of it – single frames. Do you (or anyone else) have the know-how to get this going (preferably in Rhino v5 macOS)? I’ll happily Venmo you some bucks if you can help me set it up on Mac.

Dancergraham · March 10, 2019, 2:29am

Not sure i’ll Have the time to dig into this in the coming week - maybe someone else…?

Mahdiyar · March 10, 2019, 5:14am

It’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but I think somehow it’s related to this topic:

jarombra · March 10, 2019, 10:22pm

Thanks Mahdiyar, I’ll take a look at this GH script.

jarombra · March 10, 2019, 10:23pm

Let me know if you do have time – I’ll happily compensate you via Venmo if you can convert the script to RhinoPython for Rhino5 macOS.

diff-arch · March 11, 2019, 2:57pm

Are you looking for something like this?

pipe_maze_V1

It is not a Rhino.Python, but GHPython component that I’ve written a couple of weeks ago!

jarombra · March 11, 2019, 3:28pm

Honestly yes – it’s hard to tell from the demo here, but are these piped (do these pipes have a radius & volume)?

diff-arch · March 11, 2019, 3:39pm

Not in the demo above, no! The script outputs a tree of points, where each branch contains the sorted points of one pipe. These points can then be post-processed, for instance turned into polylines and then piped.

Meshe pipes (fast):

Surface pipes (slow):

Interpolated Curve with MeshPipe:

jarombra · March 11, 2019, 3:47pm

That’s beautiful. If the script works on the Rhino5 macOS version of Grasshopper, would you mind letting me take it for a spin?

diff-arch · March 11, 2019, 4:03pm

I don’t see any reason, why it shouldn’t work on macOS and Rhino 5. Let me think about it.

jarombra · March 11, 2019, 4:13pm

Alternatively, if you’d rather keep it to yourself, I’ll happily Venmo you some bucks if you can pop me out 3 or 4 renders of the pipes (ideally in orange, blue, and grey colors); permitting I can use them in some graphics of my own creation.

diff-arch · March 11, 2019, 6:19pm

I could provide you a Rhino file with some baked geometries or even internalised GH pipe points that you could modify/render yourself, free of charge. If your interested simply PM me!

jarombra · March 11, 2019, 6:37pm

I’d like to see what you got, I’ll PM you. In the meantime, I found an alternate method of making some pipes haha…