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Map an image

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Map an image

- [Instructor] Let's look at how to apply a pattern to a patterned surface in Dynamo using information from an external source, mainly an image. And image is, itself, a repository of information. Specifically, it's a grid of pixels and they each have their own color. We can map that to our grid of panels and color them accordingly. So, let's find an image. I'll use one on my computer called waves and you can find it with file path. If you're working in the same directory as the file you're referencing, Dynamo uses a relative file path. Which means, that if you move the two files at the same time they'll stay connected. But this is just a piece of text. So we need the node file.from path to translate this into what's called a file watcher, and that just means, if the file is updated or changed, then Dynamo will notice. Next, we'll use the node, image.ReadFromFile. This is a bitnap object and we can view it with Dynamo's watch image node. So, hopefully the colored panels at the end of…

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