Dragonfly Wing. can it be done

Is there any way to use grasshopper to emulate the pattern of a dragonfly's wing? The difficulty lies in the fact that the geometry morphs from quadrilaterals to pentagons to hexagons, and the area of the shapes decrease towards the trailing edge. Are there any specific components the set up these parameters?

I have attached a PDF illustrating the transformations.

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Permalink Reply by cbass on September 30, 2011 at 6:05pm

Have you looked at the polygon tool?

cbass

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on October 1, 2011 at 12:53am

I've heard it suggested that the dragonfly wing follows a voronoi diagram - so you might look into the voronoi tool. The challenge is in setting up the points correctly.

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Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on October 3, 2011 at 9:09am

I don't have an answer but I think the counting of the sides may be different than indicated, for instance this is indicated as 4 sides, I think it's 6...

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Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on October 4, 2011 at 5:33am

well, its not exactly voronoi diagram, but its similiar.

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Permalink Reply by Mike M. on October 4, 2011 at 8:31am

I agree. Its not exactly a voronoi. Some friends and I have come close to recreating the pattern by drawing out a series of curves and dividing them into points that can be used to create the more boxe-like lattices. I'm sure the voronoi will work for the remaining membrane once a system for a point cloud is determined.

Thanks to everyone for the help.