Evaluate volume

Has anyone found a way to evaluate a volume that is not rectilinear.

My closest idea was to create a bounding box and use the inclusion tool to find points that fall within the volume.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 4, 2012 at 4:29am

Hi George,

why not just use the Volume component?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by George Faber on May 5, 2012 at 10:40am

Right, looking back I phrased my question weird. Say I want to control a point in a position xyz with some sliders, but have it remain within the volume. My workflow above allows me to do that but was looking for a way to produce less null outputs.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on May 5, 2012 at 11:01am

well, you could remove the nulls from the list with clean tree? Is that what you mean?

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 5, 2012 at 11:27am

Instead of nulls, you can make a logic statement - if point is outside volume, then find its closest point on brep...

I dont think other options are avaible... topology of your building is to complicated.

Permalink Reply by George Faber on May 6, 2012 at 1:27pm

My next step is to have Galapagos control those points. I was running into problems with my fitness due to the high output of nulls. I like the logic statement idea. Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Permalink Reply by andreaquartara on January 11, 2013 at 2:58am

hello george! Have you carried out more than your definition? I am interested in your approach as I would get to evaluate through Galapagos + GECO the best volumetric change by the position of the vertices xyz! do you have any advice for me?

Permalink Reply by George Faber on January 12, 2013 at 3:51pm

This was the precursor to my other project which you've commented on.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/form-finding-with-galapogas

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