Intro to Python Scripting: 06 Nested For Loops and Functions

Course or Collection: 
Intro to Scripting with Python for Rhino
Software: 
Python / Rhino
Tag: 
Scripting
Video Duration: 
9 minutes
Author: 
Zach Downey

In this tutorial we look at nested loops and create our own function to create a point with color. We have three different nested loops that we iterate over and add color points to our Rhino document. We also use the EnableRedraw() and Redraw() functions to disable the view regeneration, which speeds up the the script quite a bit.

#Nested For Loops
#color points
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
 
 
def createColoredPoint(x,y,z,r,g,b):
    currentColor = [r,g,b]
    pt = rs.AddPoint(x,y,z)
    rs.ObjectColor(pt, currentColor)
 
 
rs.EnableRedraw(False)
step = 10
 
for x in range(0,256, step):
    for y in range(0,256, step):
        for z in range(0,256,step):
            createColoredPoint(x,y,z,x,y,z)
rs.Redraw()

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asafdesign replied on

great info, but, how to make this in grasshopper with python? im trying to convert those lessons in gh rather with the python editor. thnx

asafdesign replied on

great info, but, how to make this in grasshopper with python? im trying to convert those lessons in gh rather with the python editor. thnx

asafdesign replied on

great info, but, how to make this in grasshopper with python? im trying to convert those lessons in gh rather with the python editor. thnx

asafdesign replied on

great info, but, how to make this in grasshopper with python? im trying to convert those lessons in gh rather with the python editor. thnx

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