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11. Animation of a moving block - Rotational motion

A Scilab script to make an animation of a block in a rotational motion about the x-axis is shown in Code 1. The animation produced by this script is shown in Movie 1. This script is the same as the one in the last section except the part "Motion data" in the rows 16-18.

anim_block_rotate.sce
// anim_block_rotate.sce

clear; xdel(winsid());

exec('eulerXYZ.sci', -1);
exec('transver.sci', -1);
exec('genpat.sci', -1);
exec('calcBlock.sci', -1);

// Block spec
Lx = 0.15;
Ly = 0.05;
Lz = 0.30;

// Motion data
t = (0:0.001:1)';             // Time data
position = [0*t, 0*t, 0*t];   // Position data
angles = [2*%pi*t, 0*t, 0*t]; // Orientation data (XYZ Euler angles)

// Initial patches
r_ini = position(1,:)';
R_ini = eulerXYZ(angles(1,1), angles(1,2), angles(1,3));
patches_ini = calcBlock(r_ini, R_ini, Lx, Ly, Lz);

// Draw initial figure
h_fig = figure;
h_fig.background = 8;
drawlater();
h_pat = plot3d(patches_ini.x, patches_ini.y, patches_ini.z);
h_pat.color_mode = 4;
h_pat.foreground = 1;
h_pat.hiddencolor = 4;

// Axes settings
xlabel("x"); ylabel("y"); zlabel("z");
h_axes = gca();
h_axes.isoview = "on";
h_axes.box = "off";
h_axes.rotation_angles = [63.5, -127];
h_axes.data_bounds = [-0.5, -0.5, -0.5; 0.7, 0.5, 0.5];
xgrid;

// Compute patches at each time
for i = 1:length(t)
    r = position(i,:)';
    R = eulerXYZ(angles(i,1), angles(i,2), angles(i,3));
    patches(i) = calcBlock(r, R, Lx, Ly, Lz);
end

// Animation Loop
for i = 1:length(t)
    drawlater();
    h_pat.data.x = patches(i).x;
    h_pat.data.y = patches(i).y;
    h_pat.data.z = patches(i).z;
    drawnow();
end
Code 1: Scilab script to make an animation of a block in a rotational motion

animation of rotating block
Movie 1: Animation of a block in a rotational motion
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