Kangaroo

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Kangaroo is a Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, optimization and form-finding directly within Grasshopper.

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Recreating a Rheotomic Surface

by A Garcia Madero

Mar 18, 2011

Hi!

I would like to recreate a form from Kokkugia that is like a Rheotomic Surface to create "wakable spaces" like Daniel explains in his essay http://spacesymmetrystructure.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/rheotomic-su.....

Is there already a Kangaroo component that allows to do this?

Thanks!

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    Daniel Piker

    Hi Angela,

     

    You could start with simple helicoids made from mesh quads like this, and subdivide in WeaverBird

    Mirroring and joining these as I describe in that essay, then relaxing in Kangaroo would allow you build up simple Rheotomic surfaces. By playing around with the topology of the starting mesh you could vary it to get more interesting forms.

    This is quite different to the complex analysis based method I originally used to generate the surfaces, but should give similar results. It was a favourite project of mine, and it should be interesting to now revisit it with Kangaroo

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