Exercise Create vectors between each of the points in the grid to each of the attractor points.
(VECTOR/VECTOR/VECTOR 2PT) The AVERAGE component finds the arithmetic mean of a set of values. This works with vectors retaining both direction and amplitude information. Use this to embed association to each of the attractor points to the transformation.
(MATH/UTIL/AVERAGE) The values passed to the AVERAGE component need to be mediated with a mathematical function so that we can set a cutoff distance to an attractors influence, a falloff in influence and overall amplitude of the move transform. Add a MULTIPLICATION operator.
(MATH/OPERATORS/MULTIPLICATION)
Use a function component with two variables (x,y). Within this component we can set conditional statements to filter out selected data and make alterations. Use the vector length output as the x variable and create a number slider to set the cutoff value in the y input.
(MATH/SCRIPT/F2) (PARAMS/SPECIAL/NUMBER SLIDER)
Use a PANEL component to enter the statement ‘if(x<y, (y-x), 0.01)’ This reads: if ‘x’ is smaller than ‘y’, then subtract the ‘x’ value from the ‘y’ otherwise make the output 0.01. Use another PANEL component to view and compare outputs (PARAMS/SPECIAL/PANEL)
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