3D Metaball

It takes me a whole Morning to type the 256 arrays.And it takes much more time to caculate the 3d metaball.

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Permalink Reply by panhao on March 16, 2012 at 9:03am

It is an example of a iso-surf tool.U can download it from the website below:

http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/9673

The process of building iso-surf in GH is quite slow.U can build it in Processing or Eclipse plantform(also very slow). And then save it as *.DXF file by adding the "save('file name.dxf');"method:

http://processing.org/reference/save_.html

By the way,there are so many ways to transport models from P5 to Rhino.Such as firefly plugins(GH),Obj export plugins(P5) ...

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on March 16, 2012 at 3:32pm

The definition "exploding text" that can be found in the link below uses marching cubes to generate the geometry. It was very carelessly done, it wasn't intented for use by other people, but it works.

You can find it here:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/processing-example-files-...

Btw, I don't know why the OP manually copied the arrays. You can just copy paste them from so many places. Use the "replace" function of a text editor to format them to VB or C# syntax.