{"id":179,"date":"2014-01-28T16:28:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T21:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bmc.med.utoronto.ca\/sciencevis\/?p=179"},"modified":"2015-10-27T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T14:45:27","slug":"3d-arrow-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/2014\/01\/28\/3d-arrow-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Arrow Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I built a rig to place and pose 3D arrows in a Maya scene. The rig has a variety of parameters with the intent of creating nice looking arrows to convey motion, connection, process, flow, or any of a myriad of meanings that arrows take on in visual communication (<a title=\"Nature Methods: Points of View: Arrows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v8\/n9\/full\/nmeth.1676.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Methods: Points of View: Arrows<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Download and unzip the file linked by the image below and read through the README for using the files with Maya scenes. There are a few known issues that I may end up tweaking and fixing in the future, but for now I feel it&#8217;s a usable asset, so feel free to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/arrow_rig_v210.zip\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/arrow_rig1.jpg\" alt=\"Arrow Rig v2.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stuart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built a rig to place and pose 3D arrows in a Maya scene. The rig has a variety of parameters with the intent of creating nice looking arrows to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resource"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}