Bot How-To:

RingSculpt-Draw

RingSculpt is a Sprouting DrawBot -- These are skill bots... easy to use, but you will develop you own style & techniques over time... that’s when they really shine.

RingSculpt can produce a wide variety of forms. Play with it’s Bot Control sliders for different looks.

Try it with mirrors too.

General info on ‘Sprouters’

Sprouting DrawBots - (ex. RingSculpt) These Bots send branches (composed of many simple primitives), shooting out along a path. If you touch any part of one of their existing branches, a new branch starts at that point. You can drag across existing branches and new branches will sprout each time you move to a new primitive. Sprouting Bots will only sprout new branches from objects they created (‘tho you can start new branches by clicking in empty space).

groBo-HowTo Movie - You can simply play it, but it’s also set up for random access with the slider. Move to various points to see what’s happening in the zoomed inset, and read the text comments.

These HowTo movies are quite plain — no textures or cool lighting effects. However, that’s just for the sake of clarity — all of this can be done in real time with full-quality textures, fog & additional lights in place. (much bigger, cleaner and smoother than these compressed movies can show).

Note: this movie was made during groBoto 2.0 development. There are some minor interface differences in the final version.

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