I want the below spirals to be evenly spaced (in both x and y axes). I am hoping distance between the rows and columns of the helical spirals to be the same, while each center will lie on the same line. I am not sure how to use MATLAB to calculate that for me. The radius of the helical spirals will change and I think there is way to use MATLAB to evenly space them out rather than manually calculating the distance of them.
The axes will always be constrained from -255 to 255, so only radius stays the same.
I pasted the code and what the spirals look from the xy axes
I am hoping the spacing between each row would be constant so that the spirals lie on the same line
Code
clc; clear; close all%
% prompt1 = 'Radius: ';
% radius = input(prompt1);
% prompt2 = 'Layer Height: ';
% height = input(prompt2);
height = 250;% prompt3 = 'Number of Layers: ';
% numlayer = input(prompt3);
spirals = (1:10:61);num = 1:1:7;for columns=1:4 for rows = 1:length(spirals) center = -250 + (spirals(rows))*num(rows); % this was calculated to work only for this radius
indent =255 - (columns*30); gap=height./columns; d=height; r = spirals(rows); z=linspace(0,d,1000); t=(2*pi/gap)*z; x=r*cos(t)+center; y=r*sin(t)+ indent; hold on plot3(x,y,z,'o','MarkerSize',2) xlim([-255 255]) ylim([-255 255]) zlim([1 255]) grid on xlabel('\it Increasing Radius \rightarrow') ylabel('\it Increasing Layer Height \leftarrow') endend
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