Tensile Membrane/Mesh relaxation

Hello GH world!

Doing some research, i am interested in using GH to simulate tensile structures / tensile membranes which are applicable to minimal surface structures. This could turn out to be a great form finding tool!!

Is there anyone out there that has some definition of idea how this is done. Please I'm open to any suggestions!!!

Thanks in Advance!

Peace!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on February 3, 2010 at 12:57am

Hi Christopher,

Well, you can start by studying the work Daniel Piker has been doing : http://spacesymmetrystructure.wordpress.com/

Whilst I'm not sure that it's very integrated with Grasshopper just yet, I believe that's a strong intention.

I've also done some work in my plug-ins with minimal surfaces and tensile form finding but haven't had any time to implement full dynamic relaxation into it yet. I thought I'd done a blog post on Costa's Minimal surface (created from a starting GrassHopper definition for constraints) but looking back I still need to fix some problematic mesh cleaning routines I wrote for adjusting the rhino mesher output. http://geometrygym.blogspot.com/2009/11/british-museum-great-court-... shows a slightly different mesh relaxation in operation, and if it's of interest, I'll explain the command and try to give this area of the plug-in some attention.

Cheers,

Jon

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on February 3, 2010 at 3:53am

Thanks Jon

Kangaroo is now completely integrated with Grasshopper.
It may become a stand-alone plug-in at some point, but for now I think GH is a really nice way for users to interact with both its input and output.

I haven't fixed a release date yet, but it is on its way.

Permalink Reply by Eugene popov on January 28, 2013 at 12:26am

One can model any minimum and other surfaces in K3-Tent system much easier than in another system (see also YouTube video) It has free trial version with full functionality

Permalink Reply by Eugene popov on February 18, 2013 at 7:15am

The new version of K3-Tent system has been laid-open on the page http://tent.k3-cottage.com/ so previous installation should be substituted for the newer one.

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