Hey micheus!
nope, didn't give up, not even yet! just busy with less fun stuff
I quickly skimmed over the video, seems like it could do the job, gotta take some more time to try it.
Inflating : I just found the "quick smoothed preview" which is a step in the right direction already. Trying with a simple cube though shows the edge lengths are not preserved, which is definitely an error in this case. So, the rendering is going to be too small, but if it's just to see how the overall shape will look like it's totally ok. No option to specify the "pressure", though.
FYI, the way I made the flat drawing for the egg was as follow:
- select one face
- view -> align to selection
- file -> export selected -> cartoon edges
do this for all faces, then import in [inkscape, ...] and rotate+place each face relative to each other as desired. I did run into a scaling issue with one or two faces though, probably because I changed the zoom level.
maybe we can simply automate this process by selecting the edges that will connect two faces? Then the process would simply be "select any number of edges to fold" and for each edge dumbly export the two adjacent faces attached to each other, recursing on other faces if other edges are to be folded on one of these faces. no need to check for overlaps, let the user do this visually. if we run into a face that is not connected to those already added to a group, then we create a new group and export it to a new page (or a different position in the page but that somehow doesn't feel as clean). I would not even bother centering the drawing in the page or make sure the page is large enough for the drawing ; again, let the user do this manually with x,y,theta,pagesize (better) or post export with [inkscape, ...] (quick and easy to do, does not interfere with the manual in-wings placement)
Micheus, pas sûr d'avoir tout compris ce que tu essaye d'expliquer avec tes "deux situations", alors je propose de brièvement passer au français dans l'espoir que tu le comprends.
1) en partant d'un objet "plat", on est donc bien dans le cas de ces "ballons d'anniversaire" ou de deux "tôles" l'une contre l'autre qui sont juste plates tant qu'on a pas gonflé?
2) rien compris ce que tu cherches à exprimer.
nope, didn't give up, not even yet! just busy with less fun stuff
I quickly skimmed over the video, seems like it could do the job, gotta take some more time to try it.
Inflating : I just found the "quick smoothed preview" which is a step in the right direction already. Trying with a simple cube though shows the edge lengths are not preserved, which is definitely an error in this case. So, the rendering is going to be too small, but if it's just to see how the overall shape will look like it's totally ok. No option to specify the "pressure", though.
FYI, the way I made the flat drawing for the egg was as follow:
- select one face
- view -> align to selection
- file -> export selected -> cartoon edges
do this for all faces, then import in [inkscape, ...] and rotate+place each face relative to each other as desired. I did run into a scaling issue with one or two faces though, probably because I changed the zoom level.
maybe we can simply automate this process by selecting the edges that will connect two faces? Then the process would simply be "select any number of edges to fold" and for each edge dumbly export the two adjacent faces attached to each other, recursing on other faces if other edges are to be folded on one of these faces. no need to check for overlaps, let the user do this visually. if we run into a face that is not connected to those already added to a group, then we create a new group and export it to a new page (or a different position in the page but that somehow doesn't feel as clean). I would not even bother centering the drawing in the page or make sure the page is large enough for the drawing ; again, let the user do this manually with x,y,theta,pagesize (better) or post export with [inkscape, ...] (quick and easy to do, does not interfere with the manual in-wings placement)
Micheus, pas sûr d'avoir tout compris ce que tu essaye d'expliquer avec tes "deux situations", alors je propose de brièvement passer au français dans l'espoir que tu le comprends.
1) en partant d'un objet "plat", on est donc bien dans le cas de ces "ballons d'anniversaire" ou de deux "tôles" l'une contre l'autre qui sont juste plates tant qu'on a pas gonflé?
2) rien compris ce que tu cherches à exprimer.