is this the section to...?

[MichaelAquilina]

is this the section to ask for help, tips and tricks, or to give a general hello to the community?
tried to look around but couldn't quite find the right place...
i don't want to post a topic in the wrong section so a bit of direction would be greatly appretiated
thanks again!!

[Karl DD]

Sure is.
Go ahead

[MichaelAquilina]

Great I met the alchemy site a long time ago but it has been
only recent that I joined the forum, after receiving a reminder in my email.
I want to say hi to the community or to you as well Karl DD. I am to believe
that your are one of the creators ofAlchemy, am I correct?

My name is Michael Aquilina, from Malta and I have an online account
at deviantart with drawings made by branded electronic programs.
But I also to program and was going to test myself in creating new modules
for Alchemy but I found it hard to find the right function for my ideas.

Can anyone help?

[Karl DD]

Sure!
Tell us more about what you are trying to make.

[MichaelAquilina]

i was wondering if the program had "built in" functions for drawing.
maybe we could imitate basic brushes and scatter options. Not the
basic brushes we are used to but a more random version an idea
like having a five pointed pen with the five points making independent
curves while still going towards the same direction. the program is
astounding at delivering randomness so i will try to live up to it.

[Karl DD]

Sounds good!

I would take a look at the Median Shapes source code as it draws with two separate lines. But you could easily change that to any given amount of lines.

To give it some randomness, I would probably go for Perlin Noise to give the lines a more natural feel.

This has been implemented in AlcMath, so you can do something like this:

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point.x += math.noise(inc);
point.y += math.noise(inc);


Where 'inc' is a counter that continuously increases by some amount.

I'm guessing you have seen the module tutorial right?
http://al.chemy.org/contribute/module-tutorial/
That should get you going with the basics.

Let me know if you need any help.

[MichaelAquilina]

yes it was helpful I'll keep you updated.

[MichaelAquilina]

Sounds good!

I would take a look at the Median Shapes source code as it draws with two separate lines. But you could easily change that to any given amount of lines.

To give it some randomness, I would probably go for Perlin Noise to give the lines a more natural feel.

This has been implemented in AlcMath, so you can do something like this:

Code: Select all

point.x += math.noise(inc);
point.y += math.noise(inc);


Where 'inc' is a counter that continuously increases by some amount.

I'm guessing you have seen the module tutorial right?
http://al.chemy.org/contribute/module-tutorial/
That should get you going with the basics.

Let me know if you need any help.

Hey there. I managed to do some work. Should I send the
module by email? I went through a cumborsome way to
get near to what I had in mind and I wouldn’t mind discussing
it.

[Karl DD]

You can post the module .zip file here as attachment and post the code using the code tags.
Either that or a private message is fine.

[MichaelAquilina]

here it is.