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Without a rule about altitude changes or something how would you get a spiral from this rather than just a circle?

• catbird 9y ago
  If the individual pods are a bit asymmetrical (not a perfect cylinder) the overall surface with have some curvature.
• tritium 9y ago
  So that rule can implicit as well: avoid collision with the existing comb floor by ramping either up on top of it, or down underneath. The spiral staircase structure starts to appear as soon as you encircle the axis and choose a vertical direction to continue with. With each orbit, the structure becomes more obvious. I don’t think there was any intention of trying to describe a comprehensive rule set in this thread.
  • zodPod 9y ago
    I agree I was just trying to understand it further. I've always thought the idea of modeling the world was really interesting but it's always been a tad abstract to me so I was trying to get a little insight into it.