October 2021

This is the continuation of the Vector class we started here, and further advanced here, here, and here. This new Rhino Python implementation is mostly educational and partially a hobby. Before this session, we have developed display, magnitude, add, multiply, reverse, and subtract methods. This time, I am adding the vector normalization and dot product methods and seeing the utilizations of the dot product. Line Explanation 1-26 Already explained in the previous posts. 27 Define a new method called “normalize”….

This is the continuation of the previous post on parametric curve equations. In this new version, the script picks a NURBS curve from the user. Then, it analyses the curve’s degree and control points. Unfortunately, only the curves with degree+1 number of control points can be processed. In the future, I hope that I will be able to extend this script to include multi-span curves with more than degree +1 control points. Finally, the script creates the three functions for…

Today, I am going to make only one addition to the Vector class we recently started in Rhino Python. The magnitude of a vector can be easily calculated by assuming that the axes (2 or 3 axes) of it are perpendicular to each other. This gives us an opportunity to assume a right triangle visually, and calculate the magnitude (length) of a vector by using the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, if you square and add the components of a vector,…