[November] Recap #36

Everydays Project #1136-1165

This month was mostly about using Geometry Nodes to make motion graphics using marbles and other shapes. Also a few posts regarding the current events (US election and my birthday!) and towards the end of the month, I started experimenting more the the new Grease Pencil capabilities of Geometry nodes in Blender 4.3.

Day 1136- Downward Spiral

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Day 1137- Cosine

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Day 1138- Double-Cosine

x=cos(y)
z=cos(2y)/2

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Day 1139- Cosine Swirl

x=cos(y)
z=cos(0.75*y)

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Day 1140- Race Day…

Whatever the heck happens tonight (and thereafter), I just hope everyone on all sides can maintain their level heads and hold on to that last shred of dignity we claim to possess as a nation. Good luck y’all. 🙏

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Day 1141- Well, this sucks…

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Day 1142- Marble Drop

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Day 1143- Panic’d!

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Day 1144- Uphill Roll

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Day 1145- Grid Roll

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Day 1146- Bump

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Day 1147- SpinSwirl

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Day 1148- Twisty-Swirly

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Day 1149- Knotty Swirl

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Day 1150- InterFinity

Borrowed a trick of using Blender UI screenshot as a background texture from a Max Hay tutorial

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Day 1151- Trefoily

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Day 1152- Toroidally

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Day 1153- Marble POV

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Day 1154- GreasePencil GeoNodes!!!

Clearly a few details to figure out about the new “grease pencil to curves” geometry nodes but the potential is there!

🧩 Blender 4.3 (woo!!!) 🧩 Cycles

Day 1155- One Simple Setting

After experimenting with 8 different methods to try and get “Grease Pencil to Curves” to work the way I wanted it to, I realized all I had to do was uncheck the “Layers as Instances” box 🤣🤓🤯 Still a tad glitchy, not sure why…

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Day 1156- Marble-Tracking

Went the other direction, trying out the new “Curves to Grease Pencil” node to connect-the-dots with the marbles

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Day 1157- 38

38 is the sum of the squares of the first three primes
There are 38 slots on an (American) roulette wheel
Oh, and cats have a total of 38 chromosomes in their genome 🐱

🧩 Blender 4.3 (woo!!!) 🧩 Cycles

Day 1158- WigglePath

Learnt more about using grease pencil to retry the “Grease Pencil to Curves” to animate the shape of the path. Also tried the new Metallic BSDF and Gabor texture nodes!