Can someone show me some TSplines examples?

I am about to take the TSplines plunge, but I need to make sure it can do what I need it to do.

In particular, I need it to turn my L-Systems into geometry. Can someone show me some of their grasshopper and Tsplines work?

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Permalink Reply by Al Krever on June 15, 2011 at 7:21pm

What type of L-systems are you producing? Branching structures, tessellations, meshes?

T-splines does a pretty good job with piping, fitting surfaces to mesh structures, etc. but they have to be of a certain class of network.

Permalink Reply by Steve Scott on June 15, 2011 at 10:36pm

I do lots with braching structures, creating complicated banyon-tree like designs. I'm less interested in detailed organic modeling of simple topologies, like jewelry, as I am in creating simple lofts of complicated topologies, like trees and roots, if that makes sense.

Permalink Reply by Al Krever on June 15, 2011 at 11:14pm

Then it might make sense to produce the curves in grasshopper and then route the output of your GH network into the piping function of the GH TSpline add-on. There is an eample of this on the page that I reference below. I've played with it a little myself. The T-splines folks are gradually expressing more of their functionality in GH. Right now it's limited but might do what you want.

Permalink Reply by Tom Finnigan on June 17, 2011 at 12:43pm

Here's what I'd suggest - use an L-system to produce the skeleton of the surface you want, and then feed those curves/lines into the tsPipe command (or there is a pipe component in grasshopper, but it's still pretty limited compared to the command).

Sorry for my slow response - I put up an example of your file at the t-splines forum..

More improvements to the pipe component are planned, but haven't made it to the top of the priority queue yet, unfortunately.

Permalink Reply by Özge Evirgen on December 12, 2011 at 10:56am

you mentioned about the banyon tree branching system. i am working on the similar geometry like branching system of strangler fig tree. i need your branching definition or method. i am beginner in grasshopper and i couldnot work with t spline in grasshopper and do what is your method for branching did you use the l sytsem( it works like tree i look like tree i need branching system like your tree what is your method?

Permalink Reply by Al Krever on June 15, 2011 at 7:23pm

You might want to check out: http://www.tsplines.com/grasshopper

It's got some good info.

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