[Bf-committers] Random IPO Generator

Reuben Martin reuben.m at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 00:15:09 CET 2006


On 1/10/06, Toni Alatalo <antont at kyperjokki.fi> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 21:05, Reuben Martin wrote:
> > be interested in fleshing out an idea I had for being able to generate
> > random IPO curves. They're not _totally_ random, but they would allow
>
> cool, this is in my todo for tomorrow actually - needed the finish the
> switchboard animation script for the Elephants Dream
>
> >       for (i = 0, i < momentum, i++) do (
> >               ipo_value += step_size;
> >               if (ipo_value > max_ipo_value) then ipo_value = max_ipo_value;
> >               ipo_time += speed;
> >               set_ipo_key (ipo_value, ipo_time);
> >               )
> >       )
> >
> > else (
> >       for (i = 0, i < momentum, i++) do (
> >               ipo_value -= step_size;
> >               if (ipo_value < min_ipo_value) then ipo_value = min_ipo_value;
> >               ipo_time += speed;
> >               set_ipo_key (ipo_value, ipo_time);
> >               )
> >       )
>
> i did not read the full of this, but seems surely interesting - you can see
> our 'semifinal'at http://www.blender.org/~antont/makewireipos.py
>
> in our todo is still to put like a 'wave effect' to the moving wires, a little
> bit like noise .. but really soft, perhaps even just a sin ..
>
> ipo generation is really easy, nice and fast from py it seems ..
> http://orange.blender.org/blog/from-ipo-to-ipo

Yes I was thinking I should look into py. But this will take me a
while given how unfamiliar I am with the py API. :P

Thanks for the links.

>
> > So... Does this interest anybody? Suggestions?
>
> interest += 1
>
> > -Reuben
>
> ~Toni
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