Draw a straight line

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Originally Posted by DickBaldwin

I'm sorry about that but at the time I didn't have a working paint program to draw a straight line in and I didn't have alot of time to make the program before my next class so I subbed a box in for the line. So the box is "technicly" the straight line.

I must be running the wrong program. I don't see a box. All I see is a man whose left arm has been ripped off and moved away from the body. The upper arm (blue) stays put while the lower arm and hand move around.

Is that the correct program?

Dick Baldwin
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Originally Posted by John_Clark

I must be running the wrong program. I don't see a box. All I see is a man whose left arm has been ripped off and moved away from the body. The upper arm (blue) stays put while the lower arm and hand move around.

Is that the correct program?

I'm sorry that actually is the right program but I was thinking of something else when I said that the middle part of the arm is the "straight line" and the hand and elbow are the balls that the arm is supost to pivot on. I'm really sorry for the mess up.

[quote=John_Clark;4639]

Originally Posted by DickBaldwin

I'm sorry that actually is the right program but I was thinking of something else when I said that the middle part of the arm is the "straight line" and the hand and elbow are the balls that the arm is supost to pivot on. I'm really sorry for the mess up.

If you figure out how to draw a line with any position, any length, any orientation, and any color and with a constant thickness regardless of the position, length, and orientation, I would like to hear about it. I'm afraid that drawing string art using an amputated arm wouldn't be very satisfactory.

Thanks,
Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
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Yea... but like I said it was only ment to be a demo to show what I ment although if I do find another way I will tell you.

For a line, you could try the cylinder from http://www.alice.org/community/showt...light=cylinder
(the cylinder in shapes is a bit short to work well) and then just orient, move and resize it in one direction as needed – quick example attached. An added move by half it’s length in one direction would be needed to make the “line” end on the “point” – and of course multiple line segments and points would be needed at the start.

A lot of work to get 3D - but it should be possible. You could also do curves much the same way with multiple torus segments.

Originally Posted by DrJim

For a line, you could try the cylinder from http://www.alice.org/community/showt...light=cylinder
(the cylinder in shapes is a bit short to work well) and then just orient, move and resize it in one direction as needed – quick example attached. An added move by half it’s length in one direction would be needed to make the “line” end on the “point” – and of course multiple line segments and points would be needed at the start.

A lot of work to get 3D - but it should be possible. You could also do curves much the same way with multiple torus segments.

Thanks DrJim,
That might do the trick.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

go to this website:
http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm

ya c doesnt it tick you off ya exactly tell me what i want to know, dont want to look it up, or else i would have.

Originally Posted by TigerWon

go to this website:
http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm

ya c doesnt it tick you off ya exactly tell me what i want to know, dont want to look it up, or else i would have.

Unfortunately, there is no information on that web site (or any other web site that I am aware of) regarding the drawing of straight lines with Alice 2.0. If the information was there, I wouldn't have needed to ask.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

Originally Posted by DickBaldwin

Unfortunately, there is no information on that web site (or any other web site that I am aware of) regarding the drawing of straight lines with Alice 2.0. If the information was there, I wouldn't have needed to ask.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm

Also didn't you write thosse tutorials yourself anyways?

Originally Posted by John_Clark

Also didn't you write thosse tutorials yourself anyways?

Sure I did, which is why I am certain that they don't explain what I need to know to do 3D string art in Alice. I don't know of a good way to draw a straight line in Alice 2.0. That is why I asked for suggestions from others in the first place.

Dick Baldwin
Free Alice tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm
Free programming tutorials: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/toc.htm