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    The document describes a Sketchup plugin that generates polar zonohedra. The plugin allows the user to specify three parameters to define a primitive polar zonohedron: frequency, pitch, and edge length. Frequency is a positive integer of 3 or greater that defines the number of vector generators. Pitch defines the angle between the vectors and the horizontal plane, with certain pitches yielding particularly beautiful forms. Edge length sets the length of each edge. The plugin generates the raw face geometry of the polar zonohedron based on these parameters.

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    The document describes a Sketchup plugin that generates polar zonohedra. The plugin allows the user to specify three parameters to define a primitive polar zonohedron: frequency, pitch, and edge length. Frequency is a positive integer of 3 or greater that defines the number of vector generators. Pitch defines the angle between the vectors and the horizontal plane, with certain pitches yielding particularly beautiful forms. Edge length sets the length of each edge. The plugin generates the raw face geometry of the polar zonohedron based on these parameters.

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    Zomadic - Polar Zonohedron Plugin For Sketchup

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    The document describes a Sketchup plugin that generates polar zonohedra. The plugin allows the user to specify three parameters to define a primitive polar zonohedron: frequency, pitch, and edge length. Frequency is a positive integer of 3 or greater that defines the number of vector generators. Pitch defines the angle between the vectors and the horizontal plane, with certain pitches yielding particularly beautiful forms. Edge length sets the length of each edge. The plugin generates the raw face geometry of the polar zonohedron based on these parameters.

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    Zomadic
    Sunday, September 19, 2010 About Me

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    Polar Zonohedron plugin
    I finally sat down long enough to write a simple Sketchup plugin which generates a general case polar for Sketchup
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    The interface is quite simple. There are three parameters which define a primitive polar zonohedron:
    the frequency, the pitch and the edge length.

    The Frequency is a positive integer value which must be 3 or greater. This defines the number of
    vector generators of which the entire polar zonohedron is formed. Shown above is an 8 frequency
    polar zonohedron ­ hence the eight petals which converge at the top.
    The pitch defines the angle between each of the vectors and the horizontal plane. It may be surprising
    to note that the pitch of each and every edge throughout the polar zonohedron is identical. The pitch
    value is an angular value which is input as radians. There are certain special pitches which yield
    particularly beautiful and useful zonohedral forms.   

    One particular pitch which equals about 35.264° is equal to the function atan ( sqrt(2) /2 ).There are
    many interesting things about this number. It is an angular result of a ratio called the silver mean. It is
    also the pitch of the edges of a cube when oriented in polar zonohedral form. More about this later.
    And lastly the third and final parameter defines the edges length of the polar zonohedron. Similar to
    the pitch it might be surprising that each and every edge throughout the polar zonohedron are exactly
    the same length.

    That's basically it. A group is created and the raw face geometry for the polar zonohedron is added to
    it. Above is a 96 frequency polar zonohedron which took about 3 minutes to generate so have care
    when using larger numbers.

    The plugin can be downloaded here...

    Download the file polar_zonohedron.rb and drop it into your Sketchup plugins folder and launch
    Sketchup. An item called "Polar Zonohedron" will appear under the Plugins menu.

    Enjoy!

    Rob Bell

    Posted by Zomad at 5:04 PM 
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    3 comments:
    Michael Eve said...
    Hi, 

    I cant seem to be able to download your plugin? is there another way of downloading it? 

    Thanks.
    2:33 AM

    kage said...
    Hello, 
    How can I download the plugin?

    Thank you,

    Daniel C. Kage
    4:33 AM

    Yuriy Shevnin said...
    http://forum.domesworld.ru/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=199&p=17825#p17825
    11:13 PM

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