01B - Mircea+Alexandra - Recursion squares-Script

#assignment o1B_A+M

#create an initial square 
#get the coordinates of the points on each line, depending on the percentage ( in this case the percenatege is a subdivison)
#create a new square with the center in each point we get in the previous step
#rotate the squares with an angle
#scale the initial square
#recursion (by each iteration a new square is created, and along the lines other squares are created and rotated in the same time)


import maya.cmds as cmds

#create one initial square
x=10
y=10
mySquare = cmds.nurbsSquare(sl1=x, sl2=y)

      
def recursion( iterations , amt , percentage): 
 it=iterations  
 pp=percentage
 
 #select the square
 cmds.select( mySquare, r=1 )   
 isSides = cmds.filterExpand( sm=9 )  
 print isSides
  
 #go through all the lines of the square 
 for i in range(0, len(isSides), 1):  
  print i 
  line = isSides[i]  
      #get the coordinates on the lines depending on the percentages
   for j in range(1, pp+1, 1):
   procent = j/float(pp)
   poc = cmds.pointOnCurve(line,pr=procent,top=True,p=True)
   #create a new square with the center in each point;
   #the side of the squares created either can have decreasing values or the same length
   #newSquare = cmds.nurbsSquare(c=poc, sl1=1/float(x/pp), sl2=1/float(y/pp))  
   newSquare = cmds.nurbsSquare(c=poc, sl1=2, sl2=2)      
   #rotate squares with an angle
   cmds.rotate(0,0,it*amt*2, newSquare, pivot=poc)

 if iterations == 0:  
  return "Done."  
 else:  
  iterations -= 1 
  percentage -= 1 
  #scale the initial square
  cmds.scale( 1/float( x/pp),1/float( x/pp), 1/float( x/pp) , mySquare, pivot=(0, 0, 0), absolute=True )
  recursion(iterations, amt, percentage) 
   
   
recursion(4,10,4)