Lamp Writer
By Yifan Lin🏆
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This piece was inspired by the Pixar lamp intro from Pixar movies. I built an animated lamp that can create any given single stroke writing or drawing.
To the displayed effect, I made the following changes to A7. All modifications are made in main.cpp, unless otherwise noted.
- Created a Python script draw_animation.py, allowing users to interactively draw a desired trajectory.
- Implemented trajectory following in inverse kinematics mode, enabling the lamp to follow a set timestamped points.
- Added trailing effect to to progressively show the writing/drawing the lamp has made.
Acknowledgements
This piece has used Python with NumPy and Matplotlib to create trajectories used for animation.