fluid mesh

Hi everybody,

is it possible to obtain a surface like the one attached with mesh components in Grasshopper?

thank you

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lime-vitra.jpg, 32 KB

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on September 17, 2010 at 3:41pm

yes. Make sure you grab all the extra goodies to work on meshes...Weaverbird and Mesh Tools...

Permalink Reply by Davide on September 17, 2010 at 5:10pm

Thank you Luis.

do you know some tutorial or examples?

Permalink Reply by Philipp on September 18, 2010 at 3:18am

Yes, do you know some examples to do things like this one - I really want to do something like "laticce" (shape of the net).

Permalink Reply by Gwyll on September 18, 2010 at 9:16pm

Ive got some examples of meshing workflow on my blog, particularly in the production of nice smooth space frames. Link here: http://ledatomica.wordpress.com

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on September 19, 2010 at 2:20am

They are not rendered shiny, but they are smooth...

Permalink Reply by Philipp on September 19, 2010 at 2:44am

but how to do this? just unite "tubes" and then smooth them?

Permalink Reply by Davide on September 21, 2010 at 5:51pm

a great work Luis, really!

My aim is to made something like the new example attached:

1. to start from a set of points (input)
2. generate a mesh (Delaunay?)
3. create a smooth-closed mesh along the edges (Catmull Clark?)

I need some clarification about the steps, and in particular about the creation of smooth - closed meshes along the mesh edges.

Thanks everybody

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Permalink Reply by Juan_P on September 21, 2010 at 9:02pm

hey,
dont know much about this but i remember there was someone who did similar to what you want to do.. maybe he can guide you
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/growacar2-1?context=latest

good luck..

Permalink Reply by brendon_carlin on September 22, 2010 at 5:06am

Hey Davide,

one way to go about this:

go to Luis' web site, LAN, and see how he did it there.

get the weaver bird plugin, one of the keys is to use the mesh settings.

good luck!

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on September 22, 2010 at 5:10am

Hello,
The important thing is the solid geometry. Start from a closed solid...very low resolution, then start subdividing.

I am attaching a very simple example.

Here on our site there is a post about Shelling. It might not work on all polysurfaces.

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solid-smooth.ghx, 139 KB

Permalink Reply by Davide on September 22, 2010 at 5:54pm

Hi guys,

thank you so much for the support. Now everythingh is clear.

I hope to show you some example as soon as possible to evaluate my progress.

thanx again

Davide

Permalink Reply by Juan_P on September 22, 2010 at 6:26pm

Hey Davide,
Cant wait to see progress.. Good luck