eps are represented by multiple surfaces so the discussed techniques are not fully workable.
the attached files include my test gh and a solid file to input. I have been able to map a suitable voronoi latticework onto the brep surface - but then I'm stuck. I cannot offset the curves on the brep and create a useable strut surface that way. I cannot intersect swept pipes with the brep surface to create surface patches that could then be joined.
I need some elegant ideas; I seem to be going down a rabbit hole at the moment where I am doing ever more complex workarounds for the grasshopper capabilities. (A case in point; the rail sweep is not working for me for closed 3D polylines, so I am having to cut them up and sweep and cap the segments. Ugh).
Example input brep
Curves on brep - but no simple offset / trim mechanism
Potential rail defining strut trim - but no way to do so...
Brep / rail intersect - but no way to turn this into a surface...
Programme
Voronoi%20strut%20on%20brep%20test.3dm
Voronoi%20struts%20-%20volume%202.gh
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Meeting Agenda:
1) Discuss what the group would like to learn this term through our regular scheduled meetings. Topics include the priority and sequence of Grasshopper exercises we would like to explore during the winter term from http://www.digitaltoolbox.info/grasshopper_basic.html and Processing tutorials from the Processing Handbook I received from MIT.
2) Watch the Matt Storus Church Machine video and have a discussion about parametric and generative tools in design.
If you have a chance, please read the following article by Tim Love called Between Mission Statement and Parametric Model at:
http://places.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=10757
3) Discuss a possible design build project over the following winter and spring terms using the skill set this group is developing. Conversation led by Chris Nielson (please see comments below for a brief backstory)
4) Discuss possible applied research and design work for the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student paper, Machine Craft and the Contemporary Designer: exploring parameters and variables through making physical artifacts. I wrote the attached abstract and submitted it for the conference the past fall and it was accepted. To continue with the research I need to assemble a team of students that will help explore the principles I set forth by making physical objects with the cnc router. In exchange for helping with the research I will show participants how to use the cnc router, how to author machine code and provide you with the cnc controller interface software necessary to simulate machine movements. Not to mention, your work will be sited in the research paper I present at the conference at UNC Charlotte in March. More tomorrow night, of course.
Thank you for your interest and I hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
Erik Hegre
Chris Nielson Reply by Eugene Parametric Society on January 7, 2010 at 12:02pm
All,
In response to Erik, who requested that I describe my intentions in a design-build project and to the article posted (definitely required reading for this group) I propose that we begin development of a project that spans the realm of "sustainable social" architecture and parametric design. The particulars of such a design do need to be made concrete, and it will be important to define the goals of such a project.
Therefore, I would suggest that this serve as a forum for the next few weeks for those interested in producing a built project. I agree with Nico that it may not be feasible to create the built piece, whatever it may be, this term; however we should have the groundwork and a plan in place by the end of the next 10 weeks.
Either way, I would ask that everyone who is interested to please provide as many concepts to this forum to begin a discussion. If you are indeed interested, please submit goals that this project could achieve (energy, socially, aesthetically, economically, related) and perhaps what you envision the project to physically be (shading device, public bench, water catchment, interactive thermal contraption, etc . . . )
I look forward to hearing your thoughts!
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sshopper for the developable surface problem. Thanks for connecting me to those discussions on it. Those images are fantastic!Andrew, I took inspiration from your approach and my ran with it! This works for my curve set: Here's what's going on. We can see the curve C as a graph above some plane P, and we'd like to find the local maxima, ie, it's critical points. We segment C into smooth, convex segments and use the Extremes component to locate the global maxima of each segment. This can include the endpoints of segments as artifacts, which we filter out. Now we have only genuine critical points of C with respect to P. We also check the endpoints that we filtered out earlier. If a tangent at one these points is perpendicular to P's normal vector, the point is in fact critical, and is included in the final point stream.
The pro of this is that it uses Extremes as the 'workhorse', and this component is likely to use an efficient and numerically robust zero/maxima finding algorithm, such as bisection, or Brent's method.The con is that it requires curves to be segmented at their inflection points, and for each segment to turn less than one full rotation around any line whatsoever that is parallel to P. Note that segmenting curves in these ways are interesting and useful problems in their own rights. Without this kind of segmentation, my approach will in general fail to extract some critical points on splines with inflection points, and on curves such as helixes or spirals. However, arc-segmented polylines naturally have these properties, and these are enough for my purposes for now.
In a different direction, I think I will try the method of bisection to extend your curve subdividision / dot product graphing approach. Essentially we'd sample the curve, use your dot product graph construction to find regions that we know will contain a zero crossing, subsample on those regions, and repeat the process until we've hit floating point precision for the result. This probably takes around 20 to 50 iterations. But it would give the highest quality results possible, and likely be far more stable than any dubious, inflection-point-splitting, wild-turn-avoiding, subtle-bug-inducing approach that I'll come up with otherwise, hah.Andrew, thanks for the code and inspiration!…
d of interpenetrating surfaces somewhere:
Now all links (except a possible single ball on the very end of odd numbered ball series) are four balls long, including the jostled ones. Without that step, those items simply don't appear in the output, leaving way too big of gaps to ignore, eventually leaving huge gaps at later stages of segment doubling:
So if I turn the jostling multiplication factor way down it should work imperceptibly:
Ta-dah! The jostling strategy WORKS! Granted, only in this special case where I know I'm dealing with adjacent pairs of worms along a curve, not generic objects arranged in space by some artist.
Now I just need to wrap the multiple Python script components I'm stringing together into one script.
How long does the full 2400 balls take, finally? It took 12 Python scripts that merge pairs, to achieve this breakdown: 2400 -> 1200 -> 600 -> 300 -> 150 -> 75 -> 38 -> 19 -> 9 -> 5 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1. Time was 2 minutes 50 seconds, so there is some extra struggle for 2X as many balls as 1200 that took 1 minute 20 seconds, but only ten more seconds.
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