{"id":652,"date":"2009-08-05T22:22:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-08-24T19:48:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:48:07","slug":"procedural-geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/08\/05\/procedural-geometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Procedural geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Sweep.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-653\" title=\"Sweep\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Sweep-136x300.png\" alt=\"Sweep\" width=\"136\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This isn&#8217;t nearly as pretty as the swept hook thing that I posted about a while back, but I&#8217;m far more proud of this one, because it was much harder to get right, and has far more potential for the future. \u00a0The swept shape that I&#8217;ve shown before was a single 2D shape swept through space. \u00a0The model pictured here is far more complex; \u00a0at its bottom it&#8217;s a square prism. \u00a0This blends into a smaller square, then into a gear shape in the middle, which then blends into a small circle, which blends into a larger circle, as it rises up into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t actually a model that I&#8217;d ever use for anything real, of course, but it&#8217;s a nice testbed to make sure that I can take different types of shapes and fit them all together into a single, seamless object.<\/p>\n<p>There are still a few little bugs to sort out (not pictured here) <em>(edit: \u00a0now fixed!)<\/em>, but I&#8217;m generally pleased with how this runtime-generated-geometry is coming together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t nearly as pretty as the swept hook thing that I posted about a while back, but I&#8217;m far more proud of this one, because it was much harder to get right, and has far more potential for the future. \u00a0The swept shape that I&#8217;ve shown before was a single 2D shape swept through&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-aw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}