intersecting multiple surfaces-determining surface with most intersections

I'm intersecting multiple lines with multiple surfaces. Is there a way to isolate which surfaces has the most intersections? I'm trying to set up a system where it pulls toward the greatest density of surfaces. I've looked at using closest point, as plan B, but even with messing with flattening and grafting it still returns all of the intersection points. I'm trying to do this without having to do intersections for each surface because the completed model will have over a hundred surfaces.

Tags: attractors, intersection, line, multiple, surface, surfaces

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 1, 2011 at 9:06am

One possible way.

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Permalink Reply by Emily Bardsley on April 6, 2011 at 7:08pm

I'm trying to figure out how this will translate into my definition and I'm having trouble with the path mapper, since I'm not really familiar with it. What is it doing in this definition?

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 7, 2011 at 2:47am

In this case the path mapper is taking all of the individual pts on separate branches {C} and placing them as a group for each srfs on Level {B}. That way when the Flip matrix is used it turns the data structure of a line intersecting N srfs into a srf with N intersections. Without the Pathmapper you couldn't turn rows into columns.