uld like to split this solid with different geometries to create gaps into the tower, without seeing an empty tower or only a thin skin.
Is there a way to do this? I have put the grasshopper file in the attachment.
The image below shows what form I finally will achieve, three segments of a tower who can rotate apart from eachother. Whit on one side a straight sloping surface, and the rest af the surface is curved.
Is there another way to achieve the same but then in an easier way?
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your surface in order to do it with more control points, these new points will be attracted by curves and moved on z by a factor depending on distance from curve, changed by graph mapper and by a constant thickness. This will give you 2 surfaces, one unchanged an another on the top. These surfaces will be closed by lofting their edges and joined.
The closed surface will be meshed and send to bowerbird waffle.
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pper, it appears that half of the surfaces are now flipped (normals now pointing to the inside of the polysurface). I've tried to use a guide surface, I tried offsetting points along the normal to test for inclusion and then flip. I've even tried to flip normals manually by mutliplying the normal by -1.0...no matter what I try, can't seem to get all surfaces to be in the same orientation. Any insight would be appreciated...
Using:
Rhino SR6 on win xp
Grasshopper version 0.6.0019
Thanks!
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here's an image of what i get when i do the dir command in rhino:
here's what i see when i display normal vectors in grasshopper:
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to y Sobejano office and they told me that the geometry was generated "manually" with no algorithmic logic behind o.O Voronoi is becoming a style to imitate, not a tool to solve (or propose solutions) to real problems...anyway the interior is interesting. I promise to visit it when finished (it's almost there...). …
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nts but as there are polylines and surfaces in it, they are conflicting as the geometries are overlapping and intersecting.
The input for the model is a centre point and four connecting points: we can call them CNT, A, B, C and D. The model works for these points - it's quite complicated with lots of polylines, vector geometry, surfaces, rotations, etc. - but it still works and has an output of two breps.
If I had a compilation of N sets of CNT, A, B, C and D's, is there a way of feeding each of these into the grasshopper in individual sets rather than just plugging in the huge set of numbers - e.g. feeding in CNT1, A1, B1, C1 and D1 and getting a result before moving on to CNT2, A2, B2, C2 and D2?
I've tried looking through tree structures, but it seems to be failing when the size of the set isn't known - e.g. how to extract all the information from trees when N isn't know using list item (i=0, i=1, i=2..., i=N).
I hope I've managed to explain the problem adequately, I can make up an easier to understand Grasshopper model later if I haven't explained well...
Thanks in advance for any comments, pointers, etc.…