Exoskeleton is a free plug-in for creating meshes. It is currently comprised of two components: Exo Wireframe and Cytoskeleton.
Exo Wireframe thickens line/node into watertight meshes. It solves the nodes using a convex hull and stitches the hulls together with polygonal struts.
Cytoskeleton thickens the edge network of any existing mesh into a thickened mesh. The topology of the base mesh enables the production of a clean quad meshes whose vertices are all of even valence. Because It uses the half-edge mesh library developed by Daniel Piker and Will Pearson, it also requires the installation of the Plankton dll's and gha.
Exoskeleton remains a work in progress, and as bugs are fixed and new components and features introduced, updates will be placed here. Furthermore, Exoskeleton is an open-source library.
Please use this discussion forum to post questions, describe issues, and provide feedback (and examples!).
Copyright 2014 Daniel Piker and David Stasiuk
Thanks to Will Pearson, for his work on Plankton and who also has given some invaluable contributions to Exoskeleton in terms of project organisation. Thanks also to Giulio Piacentino for Weaverbird, and for general knowledge and support, and Mateusz Zwierzycki for the same, as well as for sharing his code for convex hulls, which although not used explicitly here, was very helpful in many regards for the development of Exoskeleton.
i was wondering if anyone knows a script or has an idea of how to divide a node to enable the fabrication of branching structure.
anything would be immensely helpful. I've done what i want to achieve in rhino 'manually' but there must be a more efficient way to do so in grasshopper which would also be capable of dividing more irregular branching structure. i've posted images of this below.
I basically want to CNC the ends of poles to enable them to fit together to make a branching structure from a pre-defined grasshopper geometry.
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Description
Exoskeleton is a free plug-in for creating meshes. It is currently comprised of two components: Exo Wireframe and Cytoskeleton.
Exoskeleton remains a work in progress, and as bugs are fixed and new components and features introduced, updates will be placed here. Furthermore, Exoskeleton is an open-source library.
Download the most recent version here: Exoskeleton2_150904.zip
This has been updated to also include Plankton version 0.3.4
This library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
(The source is available on GitHub here)
Please use this discussion forum to post questions, describe issues, and provide feedback (and examples!).
Copyright 2014 Daniel Piker and David Stasiuk
Thanks to Will Pearson, for his work on Plankton and who also has given some invaluable contributions to Exoskeleton in terms of project organisation. Thanks also to Giulio Piacentino for Weaverbird, and for general knowledge and support, and Mateusz Zwierzycki for the same, as well as for sharing his code for convex hulls, which although not used explicitly here, was very helpful in many regards for the development of Exoskeleton.
dividing nodes
by George Brazier
Mar 29, 2017
Hi,
i was wondering if anyone knows a script or has an idea of how to divide a node to enable the fabrication of branching structure.
anything would be immensely helpful. I've done what i want to achieve in rhino 'manually' but there must be a more efficient way to do so in grasshopper which would also be capable of dividing more irregular branching structure. i've posted images of this below.
I basically want to CNC the ends of poles to enable them to fit together to make a branching structure from a pre-defined grasshopper geometry.
thank you,
George