Soap film elements and geodesic control strings

by Daniel Piker

Sep 3, 2014

Simply relaxing networks of springs does not give true minimal surfaces. The new version of Kangaroo includes soap-film elements for accurate tensile form-finding (and allowing to choose different warp and weft stiffness). Also - new geodesic-control-string elements, or G-Strings, keep the seams following geodesic curves on the surface so that the strips are straight when unrolled new version available now from the usual place: http://www.food4rhino.com/project/kangaroo

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  • Lucas Epp

    Hi Daniel, can you give an example of relaxing a set of geodesic curves on a surface?

    Jan 10, 2015

  • Daniel Piker

    Hi Luke, I've just posted the example and a bit more explanation here: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/forum/topics/soap-film-...

    Jan 11, 2015

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