Planarizing multiple panels in a quad mesh

Hi,

Thanks Daniel for youir quick response on email. I tried several things to simultaneously planarize multiple panels in a mesh but am stuck. I sorted the data sets that I have an equal number of branches for the forces and anchor points. Also I played with the boolean toggle to get en equal amount of branches here too, but somehow Kangaroo does not let me planarize all quads at the same time. Am I missing something or is this not yet feasible in kangaroo. I attached the files for ease of reference.

Can you please help? Any tips from teh wider Kangaroo comunity would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Mathew

Attachments:

equilateralize V1_3 [panels].gh, 22 KB
equilateralize study V1_3.3dm, 112 KB

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on May 1, 2012 at 6:44am

Hi Mathew,

I'm really confused about what is the intended result here.

Why all the path manipulation ?

Kangaroo needs just a flat list of forces as input, then these will all be applied together. It also appears that all but one of the points are anchored, so that is the only point that will move.

Permalink Reply by mathew vola on May 9, 2012 at 8:34pm

Hi Daniel,

For this test model I would like to platten all four panels of this mesh separately each with their own 3 anchor points. Because the starting point is a mesh, but the result is a combination of 4 separate flat quadrilaterals, I cannot just flatten the forces. My thinking was that using a grafed list would tie each set of forces to each set of anchor points and therefore i could flatten all 4 panels with 1 kangaroo algorithm instead of 4. Unfortunately kangaroo does not seem to run with a list. Is this the case or am I missing something else?

Hope this provides some clarity.

Regards,

Mathew Vola

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