Creative Coding With Geometry Nodes - Spiral Orbits

I'm back with another creative coding episode, where I show you the inner workings of my latest piece of motion graphics. The base of it is a wire ring coiled around another. You'll learn about built-in curve attributes in Blender like Normal and Tangent vectors and tilting also. Taking advantage of them is crucial to create lots of other effects with curves. Extruding vertices is a great technique to generate connecting wires, but during the curve - to -mesh conversion the mesh vertices lose the built-in curve control points attributes. That's where the importance of the Capture Attribute comes in. The video comes packed with tricks you might not know. I've put extra effort keep it short and not bore anyone. If you like it, share the knowledge.

[@vizdotlife]

This tutorial worked out great, thank you so much. I ran into one challenge at around 7:22 into the video for a node used called Rotate Euler. This node has been deprecated for Blender 4.1+, but I still used it anyways. I tried to use the suggested replacement called "Rotate Rotation", but not certain it will match results.

[@sndosc]

Love your tutorials! Hope to see more in 2024. Thanks.

[@ilirbeqiri]

Thank you!

[@vizdotlife]

Super cool!

[@haterdesaint]

OMG I just discovered your channel! Amazing tutorials, I'm going to learn a lot in here.

[@retinalrupturevisuals2038]

yes, i just did the first text string to grid and now i see all other amazing tuts, you are so refereshing

[@mballard1000]

so cool i spent all day making wild and cool geometry videos. thanks IIir

What a lesson on GN. Very instructive. Btw, why not use tau instead of 2*pi? Thank you!

[@rogergaborski]

Thank you for making the tutorial and your explanations - EXCELLENT!

[@frederictexier]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. This motion graphic is so cool !

[@renlaidao]

Beautiful work

[@chicao.do.blender]

you're insane for this tutorial, very incredible

[@ilirbeqiri]

Thank you!🙏

[@meinbherpieg4723]

At :45 when you say "join both geometries" there is only one circle present. What other geometry are you joining at that moment?

[@ilirbeqiri]

You’re right, we only started with one circle, but we’re merging it together with the modified version, so there are now 2 geometries joined together.

[@meinbherpieg4723]

@@ilirbeqiri Ok I think I understand. The "Set Position" node essentially created another iteration of the "Curve Circle" node. Thank you for your quick reply. Great video, very helpful. Take care

[@erald-baka]

Can you make the same tutorial in C4D?

[@ilirbeqiri]

It’s like the bicycle. You can’t unlearn it.

[@ilirbeqiri]

But why cycle when you’ve got an electric scooter?!

[@stevenfoulds841]

How can I contact you about some commissioned work?

[@ilirbeqiri]

you can reach me at this adress: ilirbeqiri at gmail dot com