I made this little addon this evening out of curiosity, it takes the magnitudes of the vertices of the active objects mesh, then makes the large ones small and the small ones large.
I wasn’t going to write a post or put it anywhere (because its only a little thing) but it effectively extends the number of basic meshes you can add… Have a look, and and let me know if it is worth uploading somewhere??? It’s found as a menu option under objects.
Try adding a cube, subdivide once then invert magnitudes. Do the same for the cone etc. If you do this with an IcoSphere (one subdivision) it makes a Icosidodecahedron, which was a surprise for me!!..
also try moving the objects origin first…
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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# Blender script - Invert Magnitudes
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bl_info = {
"name": "Invert Magnitudes",
"author": "John Michael Palmer (jump)",
"version": (0, 1),
"blender": (2, 6, 3),
"location": "",
"description": "Invert mesh Magnitudes",
"warning": "",
"wiki_url": "",
"tracker_url": ""\
"",
"category": "Mesh"}
import bpy
class FractionInvert(bpy.types.Operator):
bl_idname = 'invertmops.frac'
bl_label = 'Change Magnitudes based on a Fraction'
def execute(self, context):
sc = context.scene
mesh = sc.objects.active.data
mags = [v.co.magnitude for v in mesh.vertices]
mmin = min(mags)
mmax = max(mags)
mrange = mmax - mmin
if(mrange != 0):
for vert in mesh.vertices:
mag = mags[vert.index]
unitvec = vert.co.normalized()
minvec = unitvec * mmin
frac = (mag - mmin) / mrange
newfrac = 1 - frac # that's magic bit
vert.co = (newfrac * mrange * unitvec) + minvec
return {'FINISHED'}
def menu_draw(self, context):
self.layout.operator('invertmops.frac', text="Invert Magnitudes", icon = "PLUGIN")
def register():
bpy.utils.register_module(__name__)
bpy.types.VIEW3D_MT_object.prepend(menu_draw)
def unregister():
bpy.utils.unregister_module(__name__)
bpy.types.VIEW3D_MT_object.remove(menu_draw)
if __name__ == "__main__":
register()
