Can someone show me some TSplines examples?

I am about to take the TSplines plunge, but I need to make sure it can do what I need it to do.

In particular, I need it to turn my L-Systems into geometry. Can someone show me some of their grasshopper and Tsplines work?

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Permalink Reply by Al Krever on June 15, 2011 at 7:21pm

What type of L-systems are you producing? Branching structures, tessellations, meshes?

T-splines does a pretty good job with piping, fitting surfaces to mesh structures, etc. but they have to be of a certain class of network.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Scott on June 15, 2011 at 10:36pm

I do lots with braching structures, creating complicated banyon-tree like designs. I'm less interested in detailed organic modeling of simple topologies, like jewelry, as I am in creating simple lofts of complicated topologies, like trees and roots, if that makes sense.

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Permalink Reply by Al Krever on June 15, 2011 at 11:14pm

Then it might make sense to produce the curves in grasshopper and then route the output of your GH network into the piping function of the GH TSpline add-on. There is an eample of this on the page that I reference below. I've played with it a little myself. The T-splines folks are gradually expressing more of their functionality in GH. Right now it's limited but might do what you want.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Finnigan on June 17, 2011 at 12:43pm

Here's what I'd suggest - use an L-system to produce the skeleton of the surface you want, and then feed those curves/lines into the tsPipe command (or there is a pipe component in grasshopper, but it's still pretty limited compared to the command).

Sorry for my slow response - I put up an example of your file at the t-splines forum..

More improvements to the pipe component are planned, but haven't made it to the top of the priority queue yet, unfortunately.

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Permalink Reply by Özge Evirgen on December 12, 2011 at 10:56am

you mentioned about the banyon tree branching system. i am working on the similar geometry like branching system of strangler fig tree. i need your branching definition or method. i am beginner in grasshopper and i couldnot work with t spline in grasshopper and do what is your method for branching did you use the l sytsem( it works like tree i look like tree i need branching system like your tree what is your method?