I've been trying to achieve this result for a long time, but I still couldn't figure out how to do it. There's this sample image in the Blender manual that is exactly what I want. Procedural spirals that don't intersect with each other so I don't have to manually draw all of them.
Is there a demo file for this image? So I could learn from it how it was done.
Thanks. :)
Nice discussion in comments but, you have missed one thing, look at the number of users:
Now, it is easy to understand, that this node setup only builds one spiral. Moreover, look at spiral node, it has some inputs that we can spot in the screenshot:
Knowing that, it is easy to understand that this node group builds one spiral, and then you just duplicate and modify inputs and scale plenty of times manually to create this quilling pattern.
Here is how one spiral may build, I used spiral node and add scaling to them with logarithmic progression to make it more "unfold". Looks like divergence value is doing this in the original setup.
Now we can add depth, but before doing that I want to make them equal height and thickness, without matter if they scaled or not. So here is why global reference is used. Just set plug the relative scale into Set curve radius.
Final touch is trim curve by common value, you can see the animated value here:
I have added weighted normals modifier and you can animate growing sheets:
You can also output a position of the points, to use it in shader to make this gradient look:
I'm not quite sure about how to unfold spiral to make it almost linear at the beginning, maybe he has used another method, but overall setup looks clear for me.
Check this page, there is a link to the files and a brief explanation of how it works: it basically illustrates the use of geometry nodes to create a tool.
In this case, a tool to draw spirals, scrolls and ornaments. The main work is done manually.
