XSIBlog

This article discusses some aspects of object model programming and also serves as a tutorial to design your own code to look and behave like the XSI Object Model. I will talk about Python, classic classes, operator overloading, and code design. I will re-implement at a part of the XSI Object Model in Python.

During our daily scripting work either as general Technical Directors or specialized developers, we usually write scripts for two different scopes of the project. The first is generic reusable tools and plug-ins which can be chained with other tools to achieve complex effects or processing pipelines. The second scope of scripting is the object-specific or scene-specific scripting, which is supposed to solve a situation present only in that particular scene.

A few algorithms to distribute points on the surface of a sphere.