Floor generator

Hi everyone!

I've been using grasshopper for a couple of months, and wanted to start a project that would be useful for others too.

I've built a floor generator, that given a base surface and the measurements, will generate the different planks of a wooden floor, or it can be used to generate tiles and other things:

Here's what the definition looks like:

Basically, I take the base surface, calculate how many planks in each direction I will need to cover it, create a rectangular grid, offset some rows in a random distance either way, trim the excesses using the original surfaces outline and extrude the resulting cells.

This works fine for planar surfaces and orthogonal directions, because all the movements I do I do them using x, y and z vectors.

What I would like to do next, is convert the definition so that the coordinate system is derived from the base surface, so I can also tile walls and ramps.

Can anyone give me a hand with that?

thanks a lot!

Attachments:

Piso.3dm, 119 KB
piso.gh, 27 KB

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Permalink Reply by Amir Ojalvo on June 24, 2015 at 2:16pm

Hi Alejandro,

I think I would use the evaluate surface component for that. If you create a grid of points inside a 1x1 square, you can apply the points on the surface UV with the evaluate surface component.

Hope this helps!

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 24, 2015 at 2:55pm

This version gets rid of the 3D "BBox" features and sticks to the 2D plane of origin.

P.S. Shapes are internalized, no need for any Rhino file.

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piso_2015Jun24a.gh, 31 KB

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 24, 2015 at 4:06pm

P.S. I fixed some, not all issues related to the tiling of floorboards... One of them was returning the gap-shifted rectangles to the original plane so the intersection could work properly. Another seems to be round-off error - insufficient coverage; possible intersect errors? Maybe a better way to get the brick/gap pattern?

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piso_2015Jun24b.gh, 30 KB

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 24, 2015 at 4:56pm

The edge problem was easily fixed using sliders you already had, offsetting the first brick floorboard between -1 and zero instead of -0.5 and +0.5.

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piso_2015Jun24c.gh, 31 KB

Permalink Reply by Alejandro Ispani on June 29, 2015 at 7:59am

Thanks a lot Joseph!

I took your modificartions, and added a deconstruct plane to get the x and y vectors, and now it works with surfaces on any direction, even vertical walls.

thanks again!

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piso2.gh, 20 KB

Permalink Reply by Pedro M on July 31, 2017 at 3:30pm

Hi Joseph,

is it possible to apply this to a curved surface using variable length planks where the curvature of the surface was tighter?

regrads,

Pedro

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on August 1, 2017 at 8:38am

Well, this code obviously assumes a planar surface... And if you want plank lengths shorter where curvature is high and longer where curvature is low, then just mapping the planar result to a curved surface won't work.

So I would start with a curved surface and divide it first into full length planks of a given width. Then I would split those planks based on curvature... But there are details to work out!! The staggered pattern, minimum and maximum lengths, etc.

I started to mess around with it but don't have a clear vision in mind and don't have time today to play with it any further.

Attachments:

curved_bricks_2017Aug1a.gh, 17 KB

Permalink Reply by Alex on April 4, 2018 at 8:35am

This is interesting! Im intermediate with grasshopper but I don't understand how you would split based on curvature and have interlocking "courses". Any advice?Im trying to do a Yokohama Passenger Terminal type wood plank on a vertical helix platform. I can send you files

Permalink Reply by Ton Alves on August 5, 2017 at 10:27am