GH) > then define (still in GH) some instance definition (or many: case variants) > then place it according some "policy" (3d point grid and the likes). Note: Only doable with code, mind (C# in my case).
Obviously you can skip the creation part and instruct GH to deal with instance definitions already listed in the Block Manager (say: find the block named "cell666_B3" blah, blah) ... but that means that you can only use them (meaning a rather "limited" parametric approach) and not make them from scratch (meaning a true parametric approach).
But I guess that you've tried the block way in the Rhino environment already. That said I use rather solely this approach in GH and yields quite manageable object collections - I would say "real-time" response (up to 20K instances) but I use dedicated Xeon E5 1630 V3 workstations (with NVida Quadros K4200 and up for the graphic response part of the equation) so the "performance" is rather a subjective thing.
Modifications:
easily doable with GH (on instance definitions at placing time: since you need only to scale them and not vary their topology).
Anyway post a portion of the R file.…
FORE MeshMachine (rather better) or after
BTW: For a mesh with 7M points ... well... you'll need some proper CPU to deal in a reasonable amount of time (what about a Xeon E5 1630 V3?).
Alternatively find a friend who knows very well Modo ... and see first hand what the US Movie Industry is all about.…
on for curves, if you make an algorithm that dynamically defines the possition of the controlpoints for NURBS curves as a function of the parameteres in F(t, a1,...,b1,...,c1,...)= x(t, a1, a2...)+y(t, b1, b2...)+ z(t, c1, c2...) or F(x, a, b ,c...)?
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thing deeper? ".. these and then some more.
As this simple search in the source code will tell you, right now at least Honeybee is meant to be run on Windows. There is a cross-platform version already in the works which will run seamlessly across different platforms.
Sarith
(I don't know if what I said above applies to Ladybug as well as I am not involved in that project).…