Curved surface from floating points

I have a 2d surface that I have created a surface grid on.

I then transformed those grid points with different factors in the z-direction.

So now I have a bunch of floating points above my 2d surface.

How can I make a curved 3-d surface through all of those points?

I normally would create contour curves un u or v direction and loft those but since the original shape is not a perfect rectangle, I am having problems controlling those u and v points. Is there anyway to just fit a surface through the points that I have selected in my screenshot?

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Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on January 13, 2016 at 4:02pm

There's a component under Translate >> Morph >> Spatial Deform

I've only used this once on a simple curve but there are some examples on this forum using it with a surface.

It might be a starting point...

Spatial Deform

Instead of creating a new surface through the points you would be morphing the existing surface based on the points you have moved but I don't know if you can use any points or whether they need to be control points from the original surface.

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on January 14, 2016 at 12:31am