Trefoil

What is it about?

This page documents the Trefoil distribution of the Scene Nodes system in Cinema 4D. Built from sine waves, it arranges clones along circular to knot-like loops — and can even derive matching color values automatically.

This distribution is based on various sinus waves and can therefore use a variety of curve shapes that can be varied between circular and loop shapes. What's unique is that color values can also be ascertained automatically for the distribution. The distribution points will be divided into three equal groups for which the colors red, green and blue will be output coherently. An identical function is also offered by the Distribution Op Node.

Varying the frequency can be used to create an endless number of distribution curves. This example shows just one of these curves.