Sat, 03 Feb 2024 02:47:56 +0000 Sat, 03 Feb 2024 02:47:56 +0000 https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/athing-06-cam-05-1?context=user by Harold Strang Armadillo thing inspired by Chris Mealing's shells. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/shells?xg_source=activity Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/athing-06-cam-00-1?context=user by Harold Strang Armadillo thing inspired by Chris Mealing's shells. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/shells?xg_source=activity Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/curvey-07-cam-19-2?context=user by Harold Strang Added panels (surface divided into pieces then the pieces thickened using the weaverbird wbthicken component). Rendered in Modo. Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/curvey-04-cam-19-2-1?context=user by Harold Strang Changed a few parameters. Rendered in Modo. Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/curvey-03-04-cam-19-defaults-4?context=user by Harold Strang Twisty Surface Thing Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/curvey-03-04-cam-14-1280-defaults-3?context=user by Harold Strang Twisty Surface Thing Closer Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/crazypath-03b-defaults-cam17-1-1600-900?context=user by Harold Strang This started out as a simple parametric bridge thing, but it was a bit boring so I tried to make the alignment more twisty and interesting. Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/knot-recursion-twistier-b?context=user by Harold Strang Same comments as the 'a' camera render: I just increased the twist on the green and magenta iterations, although I had to short circuit hoopsnake to make it work. There must be a fair bit of overhead associated with the hoopsnake because when I tried stepping through the 3rd iteration ran for hours and then ran out of memory with Rhino using about 15gig or so. I ended up baking the 2nd iteration output curve and feeding it in as a 1st iteration in order for it to work. I think I'm done with these 'torus knots' for now. Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/knot-recursion-twistier-a?context=user by Harold Strang I just increased the twist on the green and magenta iterations, although I had to short circuit hoopsnake to make it work. There must be a fair bit of overhead associated with the hoopsnake because when I tried stepping through the 3rd iteration ran for hours and then ran out of memory with Rhino using about 15gig or so. I ended up baking the 2nd iteration output curve and feeding it in as a 1st iteration in order for it to work. I think I'm done with these 'torus knots' for now. Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/torus-knot-recursion?context=user by Harold Strang A bit of hoopsnake recursion. I had to step through each iteration in hoopsnake and bake it before generating the next. Is that normal for hoopsnake? The magenta curve was generated using the green as a base curve, and the green is based on the blue, which is based on the red. I didn't scale up the "twistiness" enough with each pass, so the magenta curves end up fairly straight. Which is actually probably a good thing, because it's about at the limit for my computer to handle. Brought into Modo for rendering it's over 4.5 million polygons. Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/knot-anycurve-02?context=user by Harold Strang Torus knot following an arbitrary curve. Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/torus-knot-1?context=user by Harold Strang Harold Strang https://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/HaroldStrang