Dynamic Relaxation/ Pathways

Hello People;

I have been trying to use a definition that Daniel made for mesh relaxation, it worked nicely for many things I was trying to do.Except for one thing, restricting pathways.

I am trying to simulate an analogue form finding method (see attached picture) that I carried out as part of my dissertation project. I would like to create a grid, offset it and allow the mesh to only relax between the cells within the grid. Any suggestions?

Thanks;

Riyad

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Permalink Reply by Chris Hanley on June 22, 2011 at 10:02am

I had done something similar and ended up making planar surfaces from the "cells", then creating meshes from those planar surfaces, then relaxing those meshes.

the mesh creation part was a little messy, but it worked okay. maybe this might work for you?

Attachments:

20110622_InflatedVoronoi_sample.3dm, 91 KB
20110622_InflatedVoronoi_sample.ghx, 299 KB

Permalink Reply by Riyad Joucka on June 22, 2011 at 10:35am

Chris;

This is awesome.

do you think I can have instead of single lines, offset lines with the space between being restricted? i mean to get the same effect as the picture? thanks!

Permalink Reply by Chris Hanley on June 22, 2011 at 10:46am

a quick way might be to scale the cell surfaces before creating the meshes? doesn't seem quite right though.

EDIT: a simple offset also seemed to work in this case...