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Hexagonal paneling with custom hexagonal geometries

Hi everybody! I´m a beginner and I`m looking for a possibility of a hexagonal paneling like a box paneling with morph geometry (here the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqiXaF9w3A). So, I want to put my rhino-prepared hexagonal geometry into a grid (consisting of hexagonal "bounding boxes"). And to apply all it on a rhino  surface. Uff, hope you`ll understand my "beginner" problem description. Is it possible or are there similar ways to do it? Thanks!

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Could you post an image/sketch of what you're after?

Cheers

Evert

Hi Evert! That`s not the best sketch probably but I´ll try to explain. I need a 3D grid of hexagonal bounding boxes. I whish, that I could FIRST build some hexagonal geometry in rhino and THEN apply it to such a grid in GH, just like in that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqiXaF9w3A) tutorial, but hexagonal. And the whole grid schould be applyable to some other free surface which I`ve also already built in Rhino. Sorry, Idon`t know many GH expressions and try to explain it somehow. Like this. Thanks!

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Hi El Ger,

If your image attached to your post above,  is the geometry you want to achieve, then I suggest you use this as the base geometry to built from, this approach would give you a closed seams solutions. 

If what you're after is more like this then you could use the boxmorph approach. I haven't got the definition right now, I used to create the xample above, I can post it later if you want to have a look at it.

There is another way that uses the boxmorph approach and the 1:sqr(3) rectangle, as shown on fig. 9 of this paper. I've been looking at it in the last few days, but haven't had a chance to write a blog post, sorry!

Cheers

Evert

Hi Evert,

Thank you for your replies. The first example you`ve posted goes in the right direction. It´s just that the hexagons are still flat. I need them to be 3D geometries. If you read below, I think Marios understands my problem. I need some time to figure it out, because I`m a beginner and still learn from the simple tutorials.

Hi,

I believe you should tackle your problem the other way around. And by that I mean that you should build your hexagonal geometry in GH (dependable for example on the vertices of the hexagons). Hexagonal bounding boxes are not available as far as I am aware, nor they going to be helpful in this case. A proposed methodology should look like this:

1. tessellate a surface through hexagonal tiling

2. Have two or more cases in GH (geometrical configurations closed/open) depended on the hexagons

3. Cull /dispatch the hexagons according to a factor

4. Apply each case to the desired hexagons

I hope it's been helpful..

M.

Hi Marios,

I think you`ve really understood my problem. It sounds logical, but right now I can´t do all this steps by myself, because I´m too new in GH. I`ll try it later after I`ve learned more tutorials. By the way, are there some similar tutorials contaning steps like those you`ve described? That would be helpful. Thank you much for the description!

Something like this!

ah, thanks gos to danny boyes!

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Hi RWNB! Unfortunately I couldn`t open the file. But it´s not what I`m looking for, because it seems to be quite flat. And I need some kind of "hexagonal boxes". But I like the changing hexagon size inside of the strukture. Is there a tutorial somewhere? Thanks a lot.

maybe it is difficult fore beginner,
but with this definition you are able
to create also hexagonal volums. i think so!
you just offset the main surface,
repeating the same procedure as in the first surface
and than offset between the desired curves.

anyway, i can try to do this and post it
in the next days.

here is one tuts for you.
http://livecomponents-ny.com/2010/01/19/study-hexagonal-opening/

Oh that would be great! If that is important I´ve got the version 6.0059. In your link there is a definition, similar to that one: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profiles/blogs/hexagon-on-a-closed-sur... which I´ve built but for some reason it didn`t work :( I`ll try your link also but I think I just don`t get some important points. I understand videotutorials well, but there are only ready definitions as jpg.s for such hexagonal structures in internet. But I`ll keep trying :)  Cheers!

if you instal the last grasshopper build,

then you are able to open my share def.

O.K. Can I just install it over the old one or will they kill each other? Can I then still read my old files? Sorry, I`m a bit scary in some technic questions...

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