Minimal Surfaces

by Sean

Sep 28, 2009

I've been reading alot about minimal surfaces in the last week or so and find them incredibly interesting. I'm thinking about incorporating them into my assignment for an advanced computing class, but am still quite unsure as to what programs and plugins are out which can generate and produce complex minimal surfaces.

I did read some other discussions on minimal surfaces on the forums, so hopefully this thread could get a good talk going on minimal surfaces and their application in architecture or architectural theory.

Check out this installation done at the Sydney Customs House in Australia.

The instalation actually quite closely mirrors something that i have in mind for my project, so any thoughts letting me know if this is at all possible to replicate would be appreciated. :)

Link: http://www.archdaily.com/10233/green-void-lava/

and quick image

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    the status Kuo

    great work and thanks lot for detailed explaination

    Oct 15, 2012

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      Enrico Pontello

      Hi Jon! These posts are very useful for me and in my opinion you did a very hard work! But in this case i'm gonna asking you if you can help me or just indicating where can I find some proper tutorials to follow step by step in grasshopper plugin to do the connection between these circles (trying making a model like this for a competition). Basically I'd like to connect different splines between them with this system and i never ever tried to do it....I mean the connection between the buttons in the canvas. Hoping you've few minutes to spend for me!

      Thank you very much indeed!

      Enrico

      Oct 10, 2014

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        akshit

        Hello, could someone help me with the workflow for getting to such a geometry ? 

        Nov 19, 2018