SPEC Student Examples
SPEC disappeared from our garden suspiciously. Hopefully, we’ve already finalized its parametric survey. Can create the original model by measuring exact corner coordinates. Then, it manipulated shape by creating diverse vectors for each shape. Emre has also tried a similar approach. Can be definition was too long, and did not use data trees, therefore it is slow. But it’s very effective at offering a solution for animation. I re-captured his frames for animation:
Another innovative solution came from Yağız along with a presentational concern. He seems to know what he’s doing. He dispatched each row into separate lists, creating two symmetrical lists without losing their relationship. That solves the tricky part of this exercise.
Gizem, Nurcan, and Yeşim have experienced how SPEC could conform by manipulating each of its points. Again, data trees (logical connections between points) were absent. Solutions were created by hand. Ahmed, Derya, and Sacha have also finished the definition without animations. Derya and Sacha didn’t define parameters suitable for animating the structure. Ahmed’s solution was interesting, he could have animated the path and cross-section curves.
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