Grasshopper

algorithmic modeling for Rhino

I've been looking for infill starter patterns to make large and complex 3d tensioned latticework before relaxing to find the form.(Like more complex rope climbing frames.)

The aim is eventually to align kite turbines on taught rope frameworks. 

There are a lot of lattice generation formats about (especially for 3d printing) but I haven't seen any like this. The repeating unit is made from a 4 point node at the centroid to the vertexes of a regular tetrahedron, the node is then rotated mirrored and trimmed a few times to make this unit shape... 

It makes a really sweet very hollow looking lattice ... which has surely been done 1000x before but I can't find it. Can't wait to start attaching it trimmed inside tensile forms.

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That looks like it is the diamond cubic graph.

Another related structure from crystallography that I find particularly interesting is the Laves graph.

For both of these, if modelled as a tensile structure with equal tension in each edge, they are stable.

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