How to create a spiral curve in SOP?

[hopbin9]

Hi,

I need a line that spirals. Wish Houdini had a richer set of primitive objects to work with.

Anyone know how to create a spiral and control the turns and radius?

Thanks,

[ehsan parizi]

I know using point sop and a simple expression for position you can do it easily! I don't think there's a built-in tool for it. I don't have access to Houdini on this machine, I can make a file for later and upload it here.

[rdg]

LineSOP, PointSOP and http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini11.0/ref/expression_cookbook

[rurik]

Hi,

I need a line that spirals. Wish Houdini had a richer set of primitive objects to work with.

Anyone know how to create a spiral and control the turns and radius?

Thanks,

The expression cookbook has a log spiral expression

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini11.0/ref/expression_cookbook

[hopbin9]

Thanks guys for the quick response. That's perfect!

[graham]

Because everyone loves VOPs and lots of controls, here's a take on a helix (spiraling line) with a bunch of controls for radius, length, number of turns, offset and orientation. I built one a long time ago but couldn't find it so I quickly remade it.

helix.hip

[Macha]

Ramp-variation on Graham's helix

helix.hip

[Skybar]

Cheers Graham, with some tweaks and modifications it works great to make curly hair with

[johnLIC]

Thanks!  Another satisfied customer!

 

 

D'oh - is it screwing up the tumbling in the perspective viewport?   Now that I have the spiral in my scene, it seems like the space bar-middle-mouse motion is 90 degrees off from what it should be.  Is there a quick-fix for that?  Still, nice spiral. 

Edited March 4, 2015 by johnLIC

[Mohanpugaz]

vex version

• create attribute wrangle , connect nothing
• run over > detail(only once)
• add below code

//create parameters;
float turns  = ch("turns");
float length = ch("length");
int   count  = chi("point_count");
vector pos;
float mask;
float rad;
float radRamp;
float radmult = ch("rad");

pos = 0;

for (int n; n<count ; n++){
    mask = (n/float(count));
    radRamp = chramp("radius_ramp",mask);
    radRamp = fit(radRamp,0,count,0,1);
    rad = radRamp * radmult * 1000;
    pos = set(sin(mask*turns)*rad,-cos(mask*turns)*rad,mask*length);
    addpoint(0,pos);
}

 

• create add sop set to polygon > by group

Thanks!