Gills Surface by Arturo Tedeschi

hello, me again!

did somebody here make the example of Gills that Arturo Tedeschi has in his book? Im a little confused... if somebody could help me, i'd appreciate, cause i've found an example for gills here in the discussion tab but its made with a surface in rhino... at arturo's example it begins with curves.

well, thanks everybody

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Chris Hanley on July 16, 2014 at 1:31pm

That example starts with a referenced surface, drawn in rhino. It then uses the divide surface component to generate a grid of points on the surface. From those points, you then use the Interpolate curve component. These are the curves that I think you are referring to. From that, the steps would be something like:

1- divide curves

2- move points up (the book uses a graph mapper to add variation)

3- interpolate curves through those points

4-do some list management, (hint...shift list), so that you are lofting between the correct "original curves" and the new "moved curves".

As someone mentioned earlier, this book is great, but came out before a redesign of the data structure output/trees of a bunch of different components. As a result, you can accomplish the example with a few less components.

Permalink Reply by Carol Magliari on July 17, 2014 at 7:01am

thanks chris!

im very newby at grasshopper, ive tried to do what the book says, using the graph mapper but i dont know if im doing it right cause its not working, the boundary points of the curves doesnt stay "stuck" (what i presume that the gaussian type of the graph mapper intends to do, right?)

i will try the steps you mentioned!

thanks again :)

Permalink Reply by Chris Hanley on July 17, 2014 at 9:25am

The graph mapper has a few different options for "graph type". In this example, try right clicking on the graph mapper and check out the different options. "Sine" is a pretty common one that is used in many examples.