Transforming Snake Animation!
Hannah
on 6 Mar 2024
Latest activity Reply by Athanasios Paraskevopoulos
on 26 Mar 2024
Lots of students like me have a break from school this week or next! If y'all are looking for something interesting to do learn a bit about using hgtransform by making the transforming snake animation in MATLAB!
Code below!
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numblock=24;
v = [ -1 -1 -1 ; 1 -1 -1 ; -1 1 -1 ; -1 1 1 ; -1 -1 1 ; 1 -1 1 ];
f = [ 1 2 3 nan; 5 6 4 nan; 1 2 6 5; 1 5 4 3; 3 4 6 2 ];
clr = hsv(numblock);
shapes = [ 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 % box
0 0 .5 -.5 .5 0 1 0 -.5 .5 -.5 0 1 0 .5 -.5 .5 0 1 0 -.5 .5 -.5 0 % fluer
0 0 1 1 0 .5 -.5 1 .5 .5 -.5 -.5 1 .5 .5 -.5 -.5 1 .5 .5 -.5 -.5 1 .5 % bowl
0 .5 -.5 -.5 .5 -.5 .5 .5 -.5 .5 -.5 -.5 .5 -.5 .5 .5 -.5 .5 -.5 -.5 .5 -.5 .5 .5]; % ball
% Build the assembly
set(gcf,'color','black');
daspect(newplot,[1 1 1]);
xform=@(R)makehgtform('axisrotate',[0 1 0],R,'zrotate',pi/2,'yrotate',pi,'translate',[2 0 0]);
P=hgtransform('Parent',gca,'Matrix',makehgtform('xrotate',pi*.5,'zrotate',pi*-.8));
for i = 1:numblock
P = hgtransform('Parent',P,'Matrix',xform(shapes(end,i)*pi));
patch('Parent',P, 'Vertices', v, 'Faces', f, 'FaceColor',clr(i,:),'EdgeColor','none');
patch('Parent',P, 'Vertices', v*.75, 'Faces', f(end,:), 'FaceColor','none',...
'EdgeColor','w','LineWidth',2);
end
view([10 60]);
axis tight vis3d off
camlight
% Setup vectors for animation
h=findobj(gca,'type','hgtransform')'; h=h(2:end);
r=shapes(end,:)*pi;
steps=100;
% Animate between different shapes
for si = 1:size(shapes,1)
sh = shapes(si,:)*pi;
diff = (sh-r)/steps;
% Animate to a new shape
for s=1:steps
arrayfun(@(tx)set(h(tx),'Matrix',xform(r(tx)+diff(tx)*s)),1:numblock);
view([s*360/steps 20]); drawnow();
end
r=sh;
for s=1:steps; view([s*360/steps 20]); drawnow(); end % finish rotate
end
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This is very impressive animation.
Thanks for sharing. This is very cool. Is that a 2-week spring break? Playing with MATLAB is definetely a fun activity to do. :)
I have a long break, because I am on the quarter system, and this is our break between winter and spring quarter. Most other universities also have their spring break March 11th to 15th though!
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