elliptycal plan based tower

Hello,

For a school project I am designing an elliptycal plan based tower. I want to make the tower with 7 floors, each floor has an ellyptical shape. The only difficulty in this is that I want to be able to scale the ellipses. From an elevation I want to achieve an egg shaped tower. I made an ellips and i was able to get it moving in the Z direction. But I couldn't get my floors in it with scaled ellipses to get the egg shape. I added an image to make it more clear, I hoop.

Can anyone help me with that?

(P.S. I'am new to Grasshopper, any help and advise would be appreciated.)

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Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on December 28, 2015 at 10:56pm

Hi.

Hope it is of some help. Best.

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Permalink Reply by Yamoh Rasa on December 29, 2015 at 7:52am

Thanks a lot, I 'am going to try it right away.

Permalink Reply by Yamoh Rasa on December 29, 2015 at 12:22pm

Hallo Kim,

I have replicated your advise with a little bit a twist. I want to be able to move the "tower" in the x and y direction. So I used a vector XYZ, i connected the output to the base plane of the ellipse. Now I can move it perfectly. But here is the problem.... when I move it to far, the top ellipse moves back to the reference point from the "number to point" component like shown in the image.

How can I solve this?

Can u or anyone else helpe me with this?

regards,

Rasa