How to divide an organic surface into planar pentagons/hexagons?

Hello everybody!

For a student project in architecture we are desperately trying to find out how we can divide an organic surface into planar polygons (pentagons/hexagons), they can be either regular (same side lengths) or irregular ones. We have watched some tutorials of voroni surfaces, but it seems that the surface of the polygon gets tilt over the organic surface and we want to have planar surfaces. Is this possible?

It would be great as well if we would have a limited set of around 15 modules which we could use for different organic shapes but which allow us to build almost every form out of them. (So the costs of the project would decrease because we could produce repetitive pieces out of one module instead of producing hundreds of different pieces).

If you could give us some advices we would be the happiest people on the planet!!(:

Thank you in advance,

Moana & Victoria

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Permalink Reply by Muhammad Nisaj IP on November 16, 2016 at 10:59pm

It can be made possible.

But,

When you try paneling tools the divided piece of surface will be tilted according to the curvature of the organic surface.

I understand your requirement.

See, as per your figure, the curvature of the organic surface is very small radius. If we try to replace it with planar pieces of hexagon or pentagon with that size , the smoothness or even the curvature itself will be lost.

You should reduce the curvature of the organic surface or you should decrease the size of the planar pieces / increase the number of the planar pieces