Butterfly and other scripted images

[Mindraker]

Butterfly








The scripts are here.

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[Plasmus]

Belongs in Creativity.

[ryanb31394]

k? This has to do with Blockland.....how?

[Mindraker]

k? This has to do with Blockland.....how?

All these images were made with Blockland, perhaps you did not visit the link.

[SoulStealer]

what they do..

[ryanb31394]

I don't get it.....explain moar.

[VerticalHorizon]

Mindraker do you really expect a community as handicapped as this to actually understand parametric equations?

[Mindraker]

Mindraker do you really expect a community as handicapped as this to actually understand parametric equations?

I made similar designs on Roblox using the same formulas.  Now, all I did was just plug these same formulas into a Blockland script that spat out bricks according to the mathematical formulae I chose.
These images are nothing compared to what you can do:

[Radial543]

I still don't understand. I see the reticle in the 3rd pic there, but cant really distinguish what it is exactly. Could you provide a better pic? Better as in closer... :O

[Spiderpig]

Wow this is realy interesing, like an advance form of pixl art

[Mindraker]

I still don't understand. I see the reticle in the 3rd pic there, but cant really distinguish what it is exactly. Could you provide a better pic? Better as in closer... :O

They are 1x1 bricks whose coordinates have been determined according to a specific script.  So, instead of having to build them by hand, a program will place the bricks like pixels on a computer screen.
If you know the appropriate mathematical formula, you can make circles, spirals, loops, etc., much faster than you would than having to place the bricks one by one.
I chose 1x1 bricks in order to give me finer detail.

[Mindraker]

Here's a not-so-good example of a zoomed in image:

[Spiderobot]

I under stand these, I think.
You just created these lines/pictures/graphs by creating a equation?

[Mindraker]

I under stand these, I think.
You just created these lines/pictures/graphs by creating a equation?

That's it.  If you know a way to create one brick, (http://blockland.wikia.com/wiki/Spawning_bricks) all you need is a formula and a for loop (or more than one for loops) to create several bricks.

For example, let's say you know a formula y=x^2.  You'll need a for loop for the values of x (let's say from -10 to 10.)  Then the computer will compute the square of x, and assign it to y.

You can assign a constant to z, because it's a 2-dimensional graph.

Creating a 3-D graph is just the same, but you simply need more for loops.

Now, the fun thing is, I don't have to know the equations, I just look them up on the internet -- I find something that looks fancy on Wikipedia, I say "That looks cool, what's the formula for that?"  So I don't need to know ultra-high level math.  I just need to know the formula.

[General Nick]

So you're using parametric equations and algebraic expressions to create floating bricks that form a 3D shape?

This, my good sire, is a very good find.