TD Essentials: Parallel Transport

Curve framing is important for a lot of things, like trajectories, creating geometry from curves or aligning copied geometry to curves. In this tutorial Manuel implements the parallel transport algorithm that transports an initial normal vector along a curve to create a smoothly varying frame. But be warned. This video is very VEX heavy. 01:00 The paper 01:30 Theory 04:00 Understanding the algorithm 11:00 The scene 12:00 Implementing the node 12:45 Preparing the data 25:00 Previewing the tangents 25:30 Implementing the parallel transport algorithm 32:00 Calculating the bitangent 34:30 Creating orient from the vectors Thanks to our supporters on Patreon and a special shout out to Mohammed Al Abri, Momomiya Ichigo and David Adan - thanks for truly believing in us! patreon.com/entagma Initial File: https://www.entagma.com/downloads/Par... Project File: https://www.entagma.com/downloads/Par... Original paper by Hanson and Ma: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7e65...