connecting points avoiding other points with same id

[Javier31]

Hello everyone,

Hopefully, someone can help me with this one :-)

I do have a bunch of particles flying upwards and creating a trail of points behind them that i connect as polylines with the trail SOP. (see attached image)

Then i scatter some points on these lines. These new points inherit the id of the original particle and what i would like to to do is to use these id's to control a nearpoints function in order to connect with the nearest points except with the points that have the same id (basically i want to connect with those points that are not in the same line as the point that searches

i attach a file and an screenshot of what i have so far

Any help would be really appreciated! cheers!!

connecting just to other lines.hipnc

[fencer]

?

foreach(int ele; nearpoints(0,@P,5)){
    if(point(0, "id", ele) != @id){
        int line = addprim(0,"polyline");
        addvertex(0,line,@ptnum);
        addvertex(0,line,ele);
    }
}

 

[fencer]

?

foreach(int ele; nearpoints(0,@P,5)){
    if(point(0, "id", ele) != @id){
        int line = addprim(0,"polyline");
        addvertex(0,line,@ptnum);
        addvertex(0,line,ele);
    }
}

 

[fencer]

?

foreach(int ele; nearpoints(0,@P,5)){
    if(point(0, "id", ele) != @id){
        int line = addprim(0,"polyline");
        addvertex(0,line,@ptnum);
        addvertex(0,line,ele);
    }
}

 

[Javier31]

Thanks a lot but I'm sorry i completely forgot to mention that i don't want to include in the "search" for nearest points those with same id neither

if not I will always have points finding many points that have the same id and not creating any connection at all unless i increase the total amount of point to search - something I would like to keep low as 2 or 3 max per point 

Basically, every single point should be able to make 2 or 3 connections max with points of different id 

:-) cheers!

Edited September 1, 2017 by Javier31

[fencer]

Add pointwrangle after popnet

setpointgroup(0, sprintf("pg%d", @ptnum), @ptnum, 1);
i@gr = @ptnum;

chenge attribwrangle2 to
 

int nps[] = nearpoints(0, sprintf("* ^pg%d", @gr), @P, 100, 3);

foreach(int ele; nps){
    int line = addprim(0,"polyline");
    addvertex(0,line,@ptnum);
    addvertex(0,line,ele);
}

Sorry can't upload the file, odforce....

[fencer]

Add pointwrangle after popnet

setpointgroup(0, sprintf("pg%d", @ptnum), @ptnum, 1);
i@gr = @ptnum;

chenge attribwrangle2 to
 

int nps[] = nearpoints(0, sprintf("* ^pg%d", @gr), @P, 100, 3);

foreach(int ele; nps){
    int line = addprim(0,"polyline");
    addvertex(0,line,@ptnum);
    addvertex(0,line,ele);
}

Sorry can't upload the file, odforce....

connecting just to other lines_v02.hipnc

Edited September 1, 2017 by fencer

[Javier31]

Oh man this is amazing many thanks! :-)

Do you mind if i ask you about this line? // 

int nps[] = nearpoints(0, sprintf("* ^pg%d", @gr), @P, 100, 3);

i have checked sprintf in the VEX documentation and it seems to appear with just one argument sprintf(___) instead of sprintf(____,____) as you are writing. I am aware that @gr is @ptnum but can you briefly explain that a little bit?

ALso.. what does  "* ^pg%d"  mean? 

Apologise for my ignorance.. really! :-)

Many thanks

 

[fencer]

1 hour ago, Javier31 said:

Oh man this is amazing many thanks! :-)

Do you mind if i ask you about this line? // 

int nps[] = nearpoints(0, sprintf("* ^pg%d", @gr), @P, 100, 3);

i have checked sprintf in the VEX documentation and it seems to appear with just one argument sprintf(___) instead of sprintf(____,____) as you are writing. I am aware that @gr is @ptnum but can you briefly explain that a little bit?

ALso.. what does  "* ^pg%d"  mean? 

Apologise for my ignorance.. really! :-)

Many thanks

 

int [] nearpoints(string geometry, string ptgroup, vector pt, float maxdist, int maxpts)

ptgroup - group mask
* - all, ^ - except
result will be all point except in group (pg0 or pg1 or pg2...)

sprintf("* ^pg%d", @gr)

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/sprintf/
pg-symbols, %d - argument
in your case %d = @gr = id of line
 

[fencer]

1 hour ago, Javier31 said:

Oh man this is amazing many thanks! :-)

Do you mind if i ask you about this line? // 

int nps[] = nearpoints(0, sprintf("* ^pg%d", @gr), @P, 100, 3);

i have checked sprintf in the VEX documentation and it seems to appear with just one argument sprintf(___) instead of sprintf(____,____) as you are writing. I am aware that @gr is @ptnum but can you briefly explain that a little bit?

ALso.. what does  "* ^pg%d"  mean? 

Apologise for my ignorance.. really! :-)

Many thanks

 

int [] nearpoints(string geometry, string ptgroup, vector pt, float maxdist, int maxpts)

ptgroup - group mask
* - all, ^ - except
result will be all point except in group (pg0 or pg1 or pg2...)

[fencer]

1 hour ago, Javier31 said:

Oh man this is amazing many thanks! :-)

Do you mind if i ask you about this line? // 

int nps[] = nearpoints(0, sprintf("* ^pg%d", @gr), @P, 100, 3);

i have checked sprintf in the VEX documentation and it seems to appear with just one argument sprintf(___) instead of sprintf(____,____) as you are writing. I am aware that @gr is @ptnum but can you briefly explain that a little bit?

ALso.. what does  "* ^pg%d"  mean? 

Apologise for my ignorance.. really! :-)

Many thanks

 

int [] nearpoints(string geometry, string ptgroup, vector pt, float maxdist, int maxpts)

ptgroup - group mask
* - all, ^ - except
result will be all point except in group (pg0 or pg1 or pg2...)