Tiling surface with triangles

Hi, i'm trying to tile a surface with equilateral triangles.

I managed to do this only by squares with the PanelingTools Plugin but no triangles here (at least for what i can see)

The main problem is: i can tile my surface with triangles, but those are not equilateral since the curves generated on my surface are not equidistant each other (i used lunchobx to do this)

I would like to have something like this, but with triangles

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Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on November 18, 2015 at 5:26pm

I think you are unlikely to get equilateral triangles. They could be close to equilateral but if you take a planar surface made up of equilateral triangles and try bending it, it will kink rather than follow a smooth form if the surface has curvature in both directions.

There have been some discussions about this on this forum already...

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/polygon-composition-with-...

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/folded-plane-subdivided-i...

Perhaps kangaroo can help equalise the triangle edges as much as is possible for the given surface.

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