Questions tagged [mathematics]
Use of maths inside blender.
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Align cube to two perpedicular vectors
I have these two perpendicular vectors that I want to align a cube to using geo nodes.
I can simply align it to the first one by using an Align Rotation to Vector ...
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Using Math nodes After a color ramp
I am working on a Shader that has a burst of light after a sequence, and am encountering an issue with the logic after it. I have provided 4 photos for the 4 sliders on the color ramp.
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Is it possible to project a 2D-mesh onto the UV-map of another 2D-mesh?
My goal is to project a rectangular hex-pattern mesh (like a honey comb) onto a Klein bottle. Since it is curved i can't use only shrinkwrap since I must bend it along the bottle first. Mathematically ...
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Texture Displacement Along a curve tangent is it possible?
Hello I've searched for hours today for ways to do a displacement that follow the flow of another curve object for a lowpoly cartoon fire model.
I went on this page (Stretch Noise Displacement along ...
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Normalized Display Coordinate using GNs
I'm trying to calculate the screen coordinates of vertices in my scene and figured I'd try a technique that's quite familiar from working in OpenGL: normalized display coordinates. This calculates the ...
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How to evenly extrude with geometry nodes?
just starting to learn geometry nodes in Blender 5.0.
I'm making an utility with geometry nodes but in order to achieve what I have in mind I have to recreate the "even" extrude the solidify ...
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How to make the center of my procedural vortex BLACK
I have followed the instructions of this tutorial to make a procedural vortex that looks like a fiery whirlpool. It looks mostly perfect except I need for the very center of this vortex to appear as a ...
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How to create / calculate evenly spaced rings in geometry nodes
I can create the rings by using the repeat node but the spacing is not even
one is 0.34mm and another is 0.476mm how can I calculate it so the spacing is evenly spaced at any distance I choose? ...
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Rotating instances in a certain pattern / at a certain angle using geometry nodes
I'm designing several meta-surface antennas to test and visualise different radiation patterns. I can successfully generate a grid of circles, but I'm having trouble rotating each instance at ...
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Calculate center of object and move it to the origin and center it using geometry nodes
I'm trying to calculate and move an object center to the origin
Correct looking object
Moved object
Calculate center of object and move it to the origin and center it using geometry nodes. (The ...
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Generating a triangle with a perfectly rounded tip
I'm aware this question may not belong in this forum, but I'll try to ask anyway.
Given a triangle formed by 3 vertices (v1, v2 and v3), I want to generate a perfectly rounded tip on it in the form ...
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Geometry Nodes. Moving Vertices of a Cycle towards one Index
I'm building a generator in Geometry Nodes were Instances (Plants) are growing on the Points of a Cycle. The rotation of the individual instances is the rotation of the vertex its growing on.
I now ...
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General method for flattening rotated cut torus slices to horizontal plane in geometry nodes
I'm slicing through a torus using planes at different rotated angles, and I want to rotate each cut slice so it lies flat and horizontal.
While it might seem like simply reversing the initial rotation ...
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Adapting Hopf Fibration of sphere to another shape - Geometry Nodes
How can I adapt the Hopf Fibration using Geometry Nodes to work with a golden mean egg-shaped geometry instead of a spherical one (so the points can be place on the egg shape).
Original Hopf code ...
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Geometry Nodes Projection Camera
I am creating a stylized animation in which everything takes place on a 2D plane.
I have a complex geometry node setup that applies some stylized effects but they are all made to work in 2D. I quickly ...