"Make circle" SOP?

[konstantin magnus 838]

How can I access the new "make circle"-function procedurally?

see: http://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/44697/

Edited June 17, 2016 by konstantin magnus

[stevegh 45]

I know this is kind of a lame way to do it, but you could always do it with some math.

makeCircle.hip

[petz 433]

here´s another one ...

hth.

petz

make_circle.hipnc

 

 

[konstantin magnus 838]

Thank you again @petz for posting a mathematical solution.

I am currently trying to apply it to another mesh (fig. 1). Unfortunately most of the points get collapsed (fig. 2). Is there anything I am missing out?

Meanwhile I was trying to come up with a simple solution on my own (fig. 3), which is not unifying the distances between the points along a circle but is averaging out their distance towards the center. Unfortunately I would not quite know how to flatten my points on an oblique plane based on their average normal (fig. 4).

human.hiplc

[acey195 174]

well, once you have the average position, you can look at all the vectors from the center to the original positions,
adding up the cross products of each set of 2 of those vectors (flipping them if they have a dot products smaller than 0)
if you normalize that resulting vector, that should be the average plane orientation.

afterwards you could use this VEX function to layout all of your points on that plane:
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/vex/functions/planepointdistance.html

yay maths ^^

[petz 433]

18 hours ago, konstantin magnus said:

Thank you again @petz for posting a mathematical solution.

I am currently trying to apply it to another mesh (fig. 1). Unfortunately most of the points get collapsed (fig. 2). Is there anything I am missing out?

Meanwhile I was trying to come up with a simple solution on my own (fig. 3), which is not unifying the distances between the points along a circle but is averaging out their distance towards the center. Unfortunately I would not quite know how to flatten my points on an oblique plane based on their average normal (fig. 4).

human.hiplc

 

please take a look at the attached file. i've slightly modified the old example and now it should work without problems.

hth,

petz

human1.hiplc