I had the idea of creating a fantasy city, and to avoid having the same house over and over, but not have to manually create hundreds of houses I was thinking on creating collections like "windows", "doors", "roofs", etc, and then create objects with vertex's assigned to specific groups with the same names ("windows" vertex groups, "doors" vertex groups, etc), and then have blender pick for each instance of a house a random window for each of the vertex in the group, same for doors, roofs, etc.
Is there a way of doing this? (couldn't find anything online), or do I need to create a custom addon? If so, any good reference or starting point where something close to this is done?
I've thought of particle systems, or child objects, but couldn't find a way to attach to the vertex a random part of the collection. Also thought of booleans, but it doesn't have an option to attach to specific vertex, nor to use collections. So I'm out of ideas of how to approach this.
What I have in mind:
Create basic shape, and assign vertex to the "windows" vertex group:
https://i.imgur.com/DAkgDR3.png
And then have random objects within the "Windows" collection attached to those vertex, as either a particle or modifier:
https://i.imgur.com/rl5BDQL.png
Thanks for any help :)
Ok, I've found a way of doing this.
I'm using 3 particle systems (doors, roofs and windows), each using vertex as emitters, and using vector groups to define where to display one of each the different options.
To avoid the particle emitter to put more than one object per vertex, I created a small script that counts the number of vertex of each vertex group and updates each of the particle system Emission number accordingly.
import bpy
o = bpy.data.objects["buildings"]
groups = ["windows", "doors", "roofs"]
for group in groups:
vid = o.vertex_groups.find(group)
vectors = [ v for v in o.data.vertices if vid in [ vg.group for vg in v.groups ] ]
bpy.data.particles[group].count = len(vectors)
I've used someone's code from stack overflow for counting the number of vectors in a vector group, but can't find again the link to the specific question, so if you see your code here, please do comment and I'll update my answer with the proper credit.
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I have a symbol S1 with two shapes (lets say sh0 and sh1). On the stage I have an instance of another symbol mc. At run time, I will create an instance mc1 of the symbol S1. Using createjs, how can I use mc1 as a mask for mc?
I assume when you say "symbol", you mean a graphic or MovieClip in Adobe Animate. Unfortunately, you can only use a CreateJS "Shape" as a mask directly. There are a few options:
Combine the shapes into one yourself.
Combine the instructions. This is a bit dirty, but you could in theory concat the graphic instructions from one shape into another. I suspect this would have issues if the Shape instances have different x/y positions.
symbol.shape1.graphics._instructions.concat(symbol.shape2.graphics._instructions);
Cache the symbol as use it as a Mask with AlphaMaskFilter. The example in the documents should get you what you want.
var box = yourSymbol;
box.cache(0, 0, 100, 100);
var bmp = new createjs.Bitmap("path/to/image.jpg");
bmp.filters = [
new createjs.AlphaMaskFilter(box.cacheCanvas)
];
bmp.cache(0, 0, 100, 100);
The 3rd is probably your best option, but it is limiting and can be performance intensive due to the use of the filter (especially if content changes and you have to update it constantly).
Feel free to post more details on what you are working with in order to get a better recommendation.
Cheers.
When I try the bokeh segmentation effect using body-pix#1.0.0, It detects/segments the person (A) in front of the camera. If another person (B) is standing behind, away from A, B is being blurred out. If the person B comes very close to the contour of A, then person B is also getting detected. This is the preferred behaviour.
Now when I try with body-pix#2.0.0, both Person A and B are getting detected even though I am using segmentPerson API. Pls note, person B is standing much away from person A, still both are getting detected. The advantage I see with 2.0 is that the contour of the person detected is much more accurate and smoother than that in 1.0 which had a gap in the contour and the bokeh effect was missing around this gap. In 2.0, the contour is more accurate. But multiple people are getting detected. Is there any parameter I could tweak to restrict this to single person detection and use the smoother contour?
Thanks
For those who wants to know the answer. Source: https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/2547
If you want to use BodyPix 2.0 to only blur just a subset of people (e.g. the large people), a quick way would be to use BodyPix 2.0's Multi-Person Segmentation API: https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/body-pix#multi-person-segmentation.
This method returns an array of PersonSegmentation object. In your case it will be an array of two PersonSegmentation object: one for Person A and one for Person B.
You could then remove certain people (in your case Person B) from that array and pass the resulting array (with only 1 element: Person A) to the drawBokehEffect https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/body-pix#bodypixdrawbokeheffect.
To automate this process for other cases (3 or more people):
Each PersonSegmentation object has a .pose field that contains the 2D coordinates (in image pixel space) of the person's 17 keypoints. They can be used to compute the smallest bounding box area for each person. The person bounding box area can then be used as a criteria to remove small people in the image.
I iterate over finie_vertieces, finite_edges and finite_faces after generating constrained delauny triangulation with Loyd optimization. I am on VS2012 using CGAL 4.12 under release mode. I see for a given case finite_verices list is repeatable (so is the vertex list under finite_faces), however, the ordering of the edges in finite_edges seems to change from run to run
for(auto eit = cdtp.finite_edges_begin(); eit != cdtp.finite_edges_end(); ++eit)
{
const auto isConstrainedEdge = cdtp.is_constrained(*eit);
auto & cFace = *(eit->first);
auto cwVert = cFace.vertex(cFace.cw(eit->second));
auto ccwVert = cFace.vertex(cFace.ccw(eit->second));
I use the above code snippet to extract vertex list, and vertex list with a given edge changes from run to run.
Any help is appreciated resolving this, as I am looking for consistent behavior in the code. My triangulation involves many line constraints on a two dimensional domain.
I was told it's likely dependable behaviour, but there is no guarantee of order. IIRC the documentation says the traversal order is not guaranteed. I think it's best to assume the iterators' transversal is not deterministic and could change.
You could use any of the _info extensions to embed information into the face, edge, etc (a hash perhaps?) which you could then check against to detect a change.
In my use case, I wanted to traverse the mesh in parallel and OpenMP didn't support the iterators. So I hold a vector of the Face_handles in memory which I can then easily index over. In conjunction with the _info data, you could use this to build a vector of edges,faces, etc with a guaranteed order using unique information in the ->info() field.
Another _info example.
I'm new to Gurobi and I'd like to know how to add certain variables to a model. For example, if I have an uncomplete graph, I'd like to add a variable x[i,j] for each arc of the graph. I don't want to add all the arcs of the complete graph, because it has a huge number of nodes and my computer runs out of memory. So I'm trying to avoid defining variables with lists for it's indexes.
Thanks in advance,
I think that you know arcs that you want to add. If it is that, you can define a set (list ou dict) of arcs like Arcs={(i,j): value of arc (i,j)}. This set concern only arcs that you want to add.
This is illustrated in the netflow.py example, which can be found in the examples\python subdirectory.
So I'm developing a minesweeper flags game and the multiplayer version is all set up, but the single player version is still under developement. It's important to refer that I'm using a DataGridView, and I'm applying r = tab1.CurrentCell.RowIndex + 1 and c = tab1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex + 1 to see where the player clicks. What I want to do is to make the AI click any random cell when it's turn comes, but how do I do this. Any thoughts?
Best regards, joao.
Have you looked at this article:
Creating an Artificial Intelligence to play Minesweeper
In this article there is a discussion of using information Array, hypothetical array and hidden array as below:
Let us call the array holding the information our AI possesses the information array, and the array holding hypothetical situations the hypothetical array. The array storing the positions of mines is, of course, not immediately accessible to our program... we'll call that the hidden array.
You might need to do as below:
Have an information array which has info about your mines using the Layout
Have an array which provides the location about player selection
Based on 1) and 2) select a position to choose