this was about some boring building I wouldn't respond ... but here we are talking sardines.
Here's my take on that matter:
1. The 4 C# first create/use a nurbs, then define some random planes (and transformations) and then (a) either they place some humble stripes or ... er ... (b) sardines as instance definitions (NOTE: Load Rhino file first).
2. All important decisions are the ones in yellow groups.
3. You control what you get via this (priority on stripes or sardines? that's the 1M Q):
4. If you decide for sardines (the right thing to do) then you must ENABLE the Sardiniser(C)(tm)(US patent pending) as follows:
5. The vodkaFactor on that Sardiniser C# adds some spice in the sardine placement (it does that by altering the priority on the "composite" transformation in use: first randomly rotate then planeToPlane .... or the other thing?).
6. Only the finest Da Morgada sardines are used in this definition:
7. Spot the WARNING in the filter related with what sardine to choose > do it wrong and no hard disk on your workstation > no risk no fun > sorry Amigos, he he.
8. 1M question for you all: why placing sardines (it's real-time you know) is WAY faster than creating these humble stripes?
9. Although the sardines are placed in real time as regards your CPU ... the critical factor is your GPU (display mode: rendered).
10.Still WIP (dancing sardines in the next update).
have some sardine fun, best, Lord of SardineLand…
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mport the geometry again.
Right?
How about this? I add an extra object called something like "Geometry Cache". You have to give it a unique name. If you plug geometry data into the left side of this component, it will bake all that geometry and attach UserStrings to all those objects like "<name>: {0;0;3}(8)" where <name> would be your name and the rest is the exact location of that piece of geometry in a DataTree. It should probably also delete any objects already in the 3dm file that have that custom name/data assigned to them.
If you don't plug any wires into the left side, it will instead search the 3dm file for all geometry with the appropriate user data, load them into a correct DataTree and supply that data to whoever plugs into the right side.
If you plug wires in both ends, it will just function as a generic Geometry Parameter.
It might be tricky to write a good event handler for this thing, maybe I'll just restrict myself to an UPDATE NOW! button on the object itself, so you can trigger an update manually.
ps. benefit of this approach is that everyone can create and harvest geometry with such user text, whether they use Grasshopper or not.
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And got the same result as you did. Suddenly the definition started working. Although I got this error message when I opened the compression tension null.gh file:
Message log start (chronological): --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Plugin version: 0.8.0066 Input parameter chunk is missing. Archive is corrupt. Output parameter chunk is missing. Archive is corrupt. Output parameter chunk is missing. Archive is corrupt. Output parameter chunk is missing. Archive is corrupt.
Why is that?
Can I dare to ask you few more questions?
2) I want all of my members to be made of solid (not hollow) circular cross-sections.
Does that mean that my diameter and thickness need to have the same values? Like this:
?
3) I have wind load from 8 directions. Is there a way in Karamba to create load groups and choose the one with the most extreme values (group that will be used as the most relevant one for dimensioning)?
Thank you.…
are just the 8 cases, so you're actually doing it right here (scroll down on this page, and you'll see a separate subset all about marching tetrahedrons http://paulbourke.net/geometry/polygonise/). The benefit to using marching tetrahedrons is exactly this: that the number of possible "cuts" through the tetrahedron are dramatically smaller in number than those through a cube.
However, I have found that also what you're seeing that the linear interpolation creates some odd distortions (which is why I went ahead and later did the marching cubes implementation). Some of this comes from the density of the sampling grid: the more dense, the fewer distortions.
What I would suggest, if you want a (relatively) quick way to improve this outcome:
1) build up a full mesh rather that bunch of surfaces, and use Rhinocommon to combine identical vertices, and rebuild the vertex normals
2) run a couple rounds of laplacian smoothing on the mesh to better distribute your vertices (for each vertex, make it equal in location to the average of its neighbours)
3) create a line normal to each vertex roughly the length of your sampling grid and test the endpoints of it against your scalar field formula, and then do one final linear interpolation between those two points for your vertex.
This should give you a smoother mesh for sure.
But good work getting this far! …
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mpletes, i will be incremented. The default increment amount is 1.
If you change the syntax to be:
For i As Int32 = 0 To 9 Step 2
then i will be incremented by 2 each time. So now the loop will run 5 times:
first iteration i = 0
second iteration i = 2
third iteration i = 4
fourth iteration i = 6
fifth iteration i = 8
sixth iteration i = 10 which is more than 9 so the 6th iteration never happens.
If you use Step 0, i isn't incremented at all, and the loop should run forever, unless you have some other abort statement or if you adjust the iteration variables inside the loop. You are doing the latter. Your iteration variable is D. The loop itself does not increment it, but you manually increment it when you call D += T.
Although this is logically solid, it is very bad practice since it makes the code very hard to read.
Since D, R and N are not external variables, I would not expose them as Input parameters.
Also, you inner loop is very weird:
For R = R1 To R Step 0
Your iteration variable here is R, but your termination limit is also R. Not to mention the step is again zero.
Trying to debug this is very difficult because it's been written in a very unorthodox fashion. I have a distinct feeling this algorithm can be written down with far fewer variables and constructs.
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s is like flattening your data PARTIALLY - chopping an index off the end of the branch paths without obliterating the tree entirely. When working with one "set" of input data, a flatten works to get these lists to match up - but when working with multiple sets, we need to be careful to preserve the original branch indices that keep all four of your original regions separate. As a rule, whenever you're feeding two data trees into any component, they should have the same number of branches. (or one should have branches and the other should be a flat list, in other cases).
The rule of thumb I tend to teach is this:
In 90% of cases...
For lists, all your inputs should either have 1 item or N items. That is to say, if you're feeding 4 items into one input and 9 items into another, something is probably wrong.
For trees, all your inputs should have either 1 branch or M branches. That is to say, if you're feeding a tree w/ branches {0;0} to {0;3} into one input, and a tree w branches {0;0;0} to {0;3;8} into the other input, something is probably wrong.
Grasshopper essentially matches up branches first, then lists second. By "matching" I mean it processes them together. Simple example of the Line component - it will match the first branch of points in the A input to the first branch of points in the B input, creating lines between those points, then match the second branches, the third branches, etc. THEN, it applies the same logic to the level of the list (with a pair of matched branches {0;2}, match all the items in those branches to each other - first item in one branch to the first item in the other branch, etc.)
This is a tricky concept but it seems like you're already well on your way to understanding it from your definition - "PShift" is a critical tool in your path management arsenal. I hope this (overly long) response helps clear things up for you!
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See an example work flow for designing, simulating and analysing a Photovoltaic system below.
Download a Grasshopper and Rhino example file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/krbszlplj5i40dz/017_HBgeneration%20Rhino%20model.3dm?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lxneuzal3mipd2q/017_HBgeneration.gh?dl=0
See a quick introduction and tutorial videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrx2KnyhaJ5YXo5hpk8Q9q4Vy99O5IegK
1. Select a building to mount a photovoltaic generator on (seen in Rhino in green).
2. Select a surface within that building to mount a photovoltaic generator on (seen in Rhino in green).
3. Create a Honeybee context surface from that surface.
4. Place a photovoltaic generator on that Honeybee context surface by using the Honeybee generation component. Honeybee_Generator_PV and connecting the context surface to it's input _HBSurfaces. Then you can specify both the performance and the financial data of the photovoltaic generator.
5. Create a Honeybee generation system which consists of the photovoltaic generator in 4. By using the component Honeybee_generationsystem and connecting 4 to its input PVHBSurfaces_. Then you can specify the annual maintenance cost of this system.
6. Run the simulation in Energy Plus by connecting 5. to the input HBGenerators_.
7. Read the results of the simulation:
- The electricity produced by the Honeybee generation system in 5.
- The net purchased electricity of the facility (the Honeybee zone) to which the Honeybee generation system is attached to. This is the electricity consumed by the facility less the electricity generated by the Honeybee generation system.
- The financial costs of the Honeybee generation system; capital, maintenance and replacement costs.
8. Calculate the net present cost of the Honeybee generation system in 5 assuming a 25 year lifetime.
9. Visualise the net present cost.
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