Equidistant objects Along Surface

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Permalink Reply by Wiet Mazairac on September 7, 2010 at 1:12am

So the distances from the first object to all the other objects have to be the same...
and the distances from the second object to all the other objects have to bee the same...
and so on.

If this is true then the distance between one object and any other objects is 0. Otherwise this is not possible.

I understand this is not what you are looking for. I think you want to evenly distribute objects over a surface. What rules apply when doing this?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Martinez on September 8, 2010 at 9:36pm

yes the later is true, I need them to be evenly distribute over a given surface, basically small cilinders, and being able to change the cilinders diameter.

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Permalink Reply by Alberto Martinez on September 9, 2010 at 7:10am

I have the exactly the same question as you Daniel. If you find out how to do it I would appreciate if you let me know.

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Gwyll on September 9, 2010 at 8:54pm

One way to do it is with simple agent based systems, such as Daniels processing based script on the Digital Morphogenesis blog. I think his processing sketch is available to download:

http://www.nzarchitecture.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/15/swarming-dy...

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Permalink Reply by Wiet Mazairac on September 10, 2010 at 6:16am

only 2d, but it's a start

Attachments:

• example.ghx, 72 KB

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Martinez on September 11, 2010 at 8:52pm

Thanks everybody for your suggestions, I couldn't make the morphogenisis script to work and I'm still gonna try the 2d gh example, however it seem like Panelization is the direction I want to take, except with using solid objects, one link that I found and Im exploring is the following:

http://blogs.cornell.edu/adaptivesystems/6_tutorial-3/

the video is helpfull and the examples to download are very good.

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