Cubic Grid

I’m continuing to use the same Isometric class and have been improving for the last few weeks. I wanted to see if I could build an isometric cube of cubes and see how I could manipulate it with translation, rotation, and scale.

First thing was to figure out the placement for each isometric object. I started with one bug cube then used that as base coordinates each cube will be based on. Below is the cube built up as 25³ cubes.

Now time to start messing around. First adding some color.

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Then get rid of some of the cubes, I started with just skipping ever other cube in the array of Isometric objects. Interesting, but not there yet.

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Then I added rotation and scale to each cube, giving the render a crystal like look.

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Here’s 100³ cubes using every 8^th cube.

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Update: Further messing around with the sketch I cherry-picked these interesting outputs:

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