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K-Means Clustering in Maya (Python)

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Watch this video on Vimeo instead. In this video, I show the results of me implementing a k-means clustering algorithm coded in Python, inside Maya. After having read about what the K-means clustering algorithm is, and how it works, I challenged myself to create a Python function to perform that, using primitive objects in Maya to represent data points and clusters centroids. After I wrote the code, I discovered SciKit Learn python library also has a k-means algorithm. However, there is more satisfaction to be had by the fact that I managed to code it myself, rather than just using whatever has already been written out there.