Animations

Here you will find a set of DivX animations which were recorded during the writing and debugging stage of the Rhinoceros 3+ surface relaxation scripts.
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1.18M Traditional tent-shape (mesh relaxer)	1.02M Holes in a planar patch (mesh relaxer)	0.568M Big tent surface with coloured cables (mesh relaxer)
0.966M Extremely high density, periodic surface (nurbs relaxer)	1.222M Periodic, ruled surface with fixed edges (nurbs relaxer)	0.988M A 7 sided patch with a hole in the middle (mesh relaxer)
0.792M Relaxation with a very small allowed translation per iteration per node. It takes more steps but the process is smoother. (nurbs relaxer)	1.3M Wavy surface (nurbs relaxer)	1.288M Tubular surface between ellipsoids (nurbs relaxer)
0.828M Relaxation between 2 spheres (nurbs relaxer)	0.904M Relaxation inside an enclosed volume as viewed from the inside (nurbs relaxer)	0.846M Many cylinders at weird angles (mesh relaxer)
0.658M Faulty relaxation in an enclosed sphere. The fabric collapses due to insufficient restraints. Note that while the process of relaxation (or collapse in this case) appears to be chaotic or even random, there is an unmistakable symmetry in the surface. This is a typical example of complex systems generated by simple laws.	1.11M Boolean result of intersecting cylinders (mesh relaxer)	1.360M A relaxation of a rectangular patch without corners (_NetworkSrf). This shape came up via Wouter Wynen in the beta-testing process. It's an interesting case because it is an example of a rectangular patch that has been deformed into a smooth shape along the edges.

 

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