Hi everyone,
Basically, I have 4 tetrahedrons, and I want each of them to connect to the midpoints of the closest surface of 3 closest cubes. As can be seen in the screenshot, I was able to select closest n number of cubes for each tetra, and I connected the tetras to the centers of the cubes, so what I want is that the connections should not be to the center of the cube, but to the center of the closest surface for the relative cubes and tetras. I hope I explained clearly Any help??
obviously, the ‘tetrahedra’ I used aren’t really tetrahedra, but it doesn’t matter. I went from centroids of the ‘tetrahedra’ to the cube face centroids, but you can also go from cube face centroids to tetrahedra centroids.
Hi René,
proceeding from your example; i need the connections to be established between 1 tetra - 3 different cubes. In your example, the tetra goes for the closest cube surfaces, it can also pick three surfaces from the same cube, but I need those 3 lines to go for surfaces of each 3 cubes (just like the one at the top right corner)
Thank you all for your help. I sorted it out by finding the surfaces that intersect with previously generated lines and reconstructing the lines with the midpoints of colliding surfaces. Still I would appreciate any faster/better solutions.
lol - cool - I am lost - first you said you wanted to go from each of the 4 tetras to the closest surface midpoints of the 3 closest cubes to each tetra - lol again, thought I did it, but I broke my tongue instead - I am sure I got it wrong, ‘glad you made it work!
Get the general case. Objects are of 2 kind (user defined): masters and slaves. Rule is that for each pt in master’s Faces (centroids in fact) find the prox pt in slaves (also centroids).
But it’s done 100% via code so use it solely for fun (unless you want to walk the proper walk). Anyway … the resulting connections Tree tells you (via the 4 path dims - see comments) what is connected to what. Using a clessic Point3dList for prox pts queries (a quite fast Method).
Any help??
