Growing Vine/Plant Animations for an AV video project

shay_b · December 19, 2018, 2:42pm

Hey there,

I’m completely new to programming and of!

For a project I’m currently working on I would like to have a jungle like vines grow from the centre of the window in of and expand outwards at different rates, travelling in slightly different directions and then slightly moving once fully grown.

I have the a few books for learning of and I have been bookmarking some tutorials to have a look at, but would anyone be able to give me a little head start on the process.

All The Best!

-Alex

taktik · December 20, 2018, 8:29am

Hello,

I suggest you study the work of Soulwire, he has several projects about growing system and generative plants. It’s JS but can be a good start.

phaseIV · December 20, 2018, 9:15am

Also, these addons might have something you’re looking for;

danb · December 20, 2018, 12:16pm

this might be of interest?

Prusinkiewicz, P. & Lindenmayer, A., 1990. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants , New York: Springer-Verlag.

you can find a pdf copy on the authors site, plus a load more papers on algorithmic botany
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/

shay_b · December 21, 2018, 4:06pm

Thank you all for guiding me in the right direction!

I’ll have a little play and I’ll probably be back with more questions

shay_b · December 21, 2018, 4:52pm

Sorry, how does one run a JS file?

shay_b · December 21, 2018, 5:01pm

Thank you!

None of the example files for those Addons will run for some reason? I get the following errors (ofxSpaceColonization)

edapx · December 21, 2018, 5:58pm

You have to open the example project with the project generator. The project generator will create the missing file for you. All the examples in that addon are currently tested on win and the current release. Write here if you need some help with that addon

shay_b · December 30, 2018, 9:24am

I dragged the example-branch folder into the project generator and opened in xcode, but it still gave me the same errors ?

edapx · December 30, 2018, 9:30am

Use the latest version of OF, it is 10.1
Open the project generator, select one of the example contained in the addon
the project generator has now an orange button “Open in IDE”
click on it. This action creates the files needed by visual studio code.

shay_b · December 30, 2018, 10:01am

Thank you! I got the example to run.

any idea why I’m running into this error? I have defined ofxBranchesPrimitive tube; in the headerfile?

I want the branches/vines to grow outwards from the centre of the coordinates system (on the lefthand side) at 15 degree intervals, but I can’t get the first bit of code in…

edapx · December 30, 2018, 10:06am

float x; = radius * cosf(theta);

This is wrong. It should be

float x = radius * cosf(theta);

I would suggest you to take some tutorial in c++ first, and learn at least how to define a variable before to getting started in a project as such, it will make your experience way more enjoyable.