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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planar quad panels

by Ran Berman

Aug 23, 2011

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to echieve a flat quad panels from a duoble curved surface.

I was using Daniel's panalization file as starting point.

But the resault panels are not planar.

 

Perhaps someone can help me out here, and tell me what am I doing wrong?

I've attached a printscrean of the part from Kangaroo.

 

Thanks :)  

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    Daniel Piker

    Hi Ran,

     

    Your setup looks okay, but you need to include some other forces as well as planarization.

    For example some laplacian smoothing, or making the edges springs, or making the vertices AnchorSprings.

     

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    Aug 23, 2011

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      Ran Berman

      Figured it out!!!

      Now it works like a charm :)

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      Aug 28, 2011

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        Ran Berman

        Hi Rex,

        Sorry for the late replay, but this is basically what I've done (not that much):

        the only thing that I've changed was to twick the numbers a bit and it worked, it toke some time but I finally got it.

        I can only say one thing: you need to find the correct balance between the numbers, to much and the geometry will go crazy to little and it wont do the job or only part of the geometry will transform.

        Sep 3, 2011