Kukan Kogei -空間工芸-

Notes about my 3d printing artcrafts

Animation Nodes

Hyperbolic polyhedra using gyrovector in Blender (with sverchok add-on)

Overview When searching for "hyperbolic solid/cube Blender" in the web, you can find a page1 creating the cubes using proportional editing tool. blender.stackexchange.com This approach is simple and easy way, but I found another approach2 …

Miura fold in Blender with add-ons

Overview When using 3D-CG tools like Rhino + Grasshopper or Houdini, finding articles about 'origami' is relatively easy. In such documents, the Miura fold1 (Miura-ori) is often mentioned. Currently (June 2020), however, I'v not been able …

Hopf fibration in Blender with add-ons

OverView I read about Wikipedia's Hopf fibration1 page. This graphic model is really beatiful. After some research, I found a blog https://nilesjohnson.net/hopf-production.html, offering mathematical details, a fibration animation in a You…

Calabi Yau and Hanson's Manifold in Blender (with add-ons)

OverView I wrote about creating Calabi Yau Manifold with python in my previous post1 . After that, I found an article2 about another version of this manifold having torus-knot-like shape. In my previous entry, I made the original manifold …

Rotating Tesseract in Blender (with add-ons)

OverView I already wrote about 4d rotation in my previous post1. After that, I found some articles about Tesseract (four-dimensional analogue of the cube)2 . Also, some people have already posted Youtube videos3 explaining it using some ma…

Four-Dimensional Rotation with Blender add-ons

Updated (Nov. 6, 2020) Four-D rotation script for Animation nodes has been uploaded in my gist. https://gist.github.com/asahidari/b4714563570e7ce1c27b1bb61b9a727d Image below is how to use the script. OverView In my previous writing*1 abou…