Grasshopper
Starling
Starling_0.2 mesh tools. These components enable mesh parametrization, so it behaves like a surface - you can evaluate points at any place etc.
In 0.2 release, Starling enabled quasi-polyhedral mesh tools. These new components are organized in a new panel called "Alchemists" :
How do they work ? You create polyline and each component converts it into polygonal mesh. Then it computes what it has to do. In the end component outputs polylines again, changed in some manner depending on components function.
Why truncation and dual ? Because with these two operations you can make most of mesh operations as described HERE. I.e. ambo (rectify) is truncation with amount of 1.
Special thanks to : Michael Pryor for constant help&support and David Rutten for great advices.
It's highly recommended to use Starling with Weaverbird and [uto] MeshEdit.
More examples explaining new components soon.
slExamples : Remeshing
This is a little example of Starling, which shows how to remesh genus 0 mesh.
You need Weaverbird by Giulio Piacentino and [uto] MeshEdit to run this file, as I tried to keep as small amount of components as possible.
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Tobias Schwinn
Hello Mateusz,
Just stumbled upon Starling - really impressive work! Thank you for sharing. What would it take to extend this example to adaptive remeshing based on curvature, i.e. smaller faces in areas of higher curvature, etc.? Thanks!
Tobias
Feb 27, 2013
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This is pretty awesome!
I tried adapting it to work from a series of intersecting spheres on a curve, but it wasn't working...
my goal was to expand a curve into a surface. Can this be done?
Jul 13, 2013