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Platonic spaceframe - some questions
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Tags: honeycomb, spacefilling, lattice, spaceframe

Started this discussion. Last reply by Jon Mirtschin Jan 4, 2010.

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Jon Mirtschin replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

So I made some progress on this over the Christmas/New Year. Anyone else wishing to be involved in testing and development of this an download the StructDrawRhino plug-in from http://www.geometrygym.com/downloads I hope to soon add more…

Jan 4, 2010

Patrick Seurinck replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

Seems to be a problem with opera, firefox uploads it right away. This is the solids structure as a spaceframe. Jon, I've attached the 3dm files of two honeycombs here, the truncated and cantitruncated cubics. Only geometrical information i…

Dec 22, 2009

Jon Mirtschin replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

Hi Patrick, You could write the algorithm in Rhinoscript, however the performance would suffer. Trial licenses for the plug-ins are available to everyone for at least a month (just download and follow the prompts to request the license file), and…

Dec 22, 2009

Patrick Seurinck replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

Hi Jon, thanks a lot, that looks like a very interesting plugin you made there. I'll try it out later today - can I get a trial version? Did you make it in Rhinoscript? That's probably a lot more powerful for what I'm trying to do,…

Dec 22, 2009

Patrick Seurinck replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

This is a screenshot of what I'm describing above. Can't add the image in the post, it takes forever to upload (only 70kb). Is this normal?

Dec 22, 2009

Jon Mirtschin replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

Not sure if this is directly helpful, but thought I'd throw it in anyway. I've got a Weaire Phelan Packing algorithm in my structural drawing plug-in for generating structural grids such as the Beijing Water Cube -…

Dec 22, 2009

Patrick Seurinck replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

Thanks! That's also the only opinion I can think of right now. Problem is we are comparing lines. So let's say I connect the first two types of solids to see if they share some edges. I explode the BReps, gets me some 3500 and 2600 edges.…

Dec 21, 2009

Robert Jason Cross replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

One way to get rid of duplicates is to compare decomposed elements. If we share x y and z, cull the list. Sounds like an interesting project... I am looking forward to seeing your work.

Dec 21, 2009

Patrick Seurinck replied to Patrick Seurinck's discussion 'Platonic spaceframe - some questions'

Enough talking, here are my questions: 1. Any generals ideas on increasing the performance would be appreciated. The system is slow and crashes from time to time. The amount of polys is probably the problem, but maybe there are some other…

Dec 21, 2009

Platonic spaceframe - some questions

Hi guys,my first post and first project here, i hope many more will follow. I learned GH through the primer and a workshop by Luis Fraguada in Berlin in Oktober - thanks again Luis!It's a conceptual piece of architecture - a contemporary version of Plato's cave. The cave was the symbol for visual knowledge as unreliable and deceptive as opposed to the highest form of knowledge: the eternal forms in heaven or the Platonic solids. As empirical knowledge turned out as essential as math in the…See More

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