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Examining the data stream

Examining the data stream

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Examining the data stream

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- [Instructor] Over the last couple videos we've spent some time in our Grasshopper algorithm getting ready to lay out an array of flat panels. So going from this three dimensional shape here into an array of flat panels that we can use for CNC routing. So I'm continuing where I left off in the last video. In this video, we'll kind of pause for a bit from building out the algorithm and just take a look at the data tree and see how things are set up. In the last video, I've looked at calculating a set of X offsets, and that's going to help us to build out that array of flat panels and basically to know how far each one should move. So I'll bring up a panel component here and let's plug in to the output of that shift list component. I'll bring up another panel and let's take that from the output of this previous step that we worked on, where we're getting the dimensions of each panel plus a spacing factor. So let's compare what's coming out of these two data streams. You can see I have…

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