From Rhinoscript 101, this cleared up some of the ambiguous language in the help file:
A plane definition is an array of one point and three vectors, the point marks the origin of the plane and the
vectors represent the three axes. There are some rules to plane definitions, I.e. not every combination of points and [...]
From Cecil Balmond:
The new humanism is to recognize the power of pattern, multilayered and catalytic, for we are part of it. Pattern is hard-wired into our consciousness in many ways, from simple aggregation of molecular structure to the spatial coiling within nature’s landscape. When we design we strike resonance with deep buried archetypes of form. [...]
So after probably nearly 8 hours of working on the “Normalizer” script, I was paging through the help file and found that rhino had a command “Orient” and “Orient3D”. Dumbfounded, I read on to find the script function that completes the same task - Orient an object using 2 sets of 3d points. Essentially the [...]
I have been working on and off for a week now to modify the Rhinoscript (from last week) that arranges an object on a surface, but aligns a vector determined by the user to the surface normal at the insertion point. This is proving to be more difficult that I thought, although admittedly, I spent [...]
Fun with Flash (I need to sleep):