Brick wall rotation through attractor points

Hi guys,

I'm having some trouble patterning a brick wall with an attractor point. I tried doing this after watching a video on Design Reform on patterning with attractor points, by using the radius of the circles with the distance between the point(s).

Currently all the bricks are rotated at the same angle, how do I get it to differ according to distance from the point?

This is something I'd like to achieve:

Thanks. Very much appreciated!

Attachments:

ATTRACTOR_POINTS.3dm, 44 KB
ATTRACTOR_POINTS.ghx, 97 KB

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Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on January 10, 2012 at 8:28am

Please see attached file

best

Attachments:

ATTRACTOR_POINTS_2.3dm, 69 KB
ATTRACTOR_POINTS_2.gh, 4 KB

Permalink Reply by Red Hong on January 10, 2012 at 8:41am

Hi Mario,

Thanks so much!

However, I can't open the GH file - is it because it requires a more recent version of GH? I noticed your file is a GH Binary Doc instead of the usual XML docs...could that be the problem?

Sorry for the hassle.

Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on January 10, 2012 at 8:50am

yes, i´m working on 08.063 version

anyways here´s an image if you cannot update for any reason

best

Permalink Reply by Red Hong on January 10, 2012 at 9:00am

thank u! =))

Permalink Reply by Red Hong on January 10, 2012 at 9:42am

sorry I've got another question ... (don't need to reply if u're busy - you've helped me before!).

Instead of a brick I'm trying to create a pattern using a geometry I modeled in Rhino, and then turned it into a bounding box object in GH but the result's a mess! Any idea what went wrong?

Thanks.

Attachments:

ATTRACTOR_POINTS_3.3dm, 192 KB
ATTRACTOR_POINTS_3.ghx, 111 KB

Permalink Reply by Red Hong on January 10, 2012 at 10:10am

Thank you for the reply.

I'd like the XY direction to be set for the attractor points, like the image I've posted up below. The patterning below is a random one though.

Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on January 10, 2012 at 9:56am

do you have an image of what you wanto to achive?

Permalink Reply by Red Hong on January 10, 2012 at 10:06am

perhaps not the best photo, but here's a reference.

These patterns are rotated at random, I'd like to use an attractor point to determine the rotation (like what you've helped me with previously). I tried using a simple brick pattern first, but now I want to change the geometry for each 'brick', therefore I created a hexagon-like shape in Rhino and set it as a bounding box object in Grasshopper. Does that make sense and did I do that right?

Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on January 10, 2012 at 5:51pm

understood...give me a couple minutes

Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on January 10, 2012 at 6:35pm

ok, so in case you haven't been able to upgrade

here are some prt sc_

notice that the rotate component uses radians instead of degrees.

in case you want to use degrees go to the rotate component, to the "a" parameter, right click and go to expression.

modify as in the image below

the rhino file has a hidden surface, just to let you know

here are the files

best

Attachments:

ap5.gh, 5 KB
at4.3dm, 215 KB

Permalink Reply by Shida on January 18, 2012 at 8:20am

Hi Mario,

I found both the question and your answer super helpful since I too am trying to apply geometry to a surface. I used your latest gh script and applied my own surface but nothing happened. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Also my rotate and morph battery are resulting in null.

I would really appreciate your help and I'm sure it's probably something I'm not catching.

thanks!

Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on January 18, 2012 at 8:45am

please upload your file