3D Stacking in pre-defined volume (Architectural)

Hello Grasshopper community,

I'm a second year architecture student and I'm trying to set up a little project for an assignment. I'm not very familiar with Rhino and Grasshopper. What I'm trying to do is to set a pre-defined volume. This volume can represent an urban block, with variable length, width and height. This volume has to be filled with pre-defined smaller volumes, representing individual rooms or houses. What I want is to have multiple types of smaller volumes and fill the large volume with it. Few things about how the volume has to be filled: Everything has to be random. I know this will be achieved with lists of random numbers. The smaller volumes need to be stacked randomly. Currently I'm experimenting with packrat, but the thing with Packrat is that it fills the volume as efficient as possible. I don't want it to be efficient, because I want to make a list of possibilities. After making the list I want to test them in aspect of lighting of the rooms, etcetera.

Packrat is pretty much what I want, except for it being not random enough. Is there a way to bypass the efficiency aspect of Packrat?

I want to ask if someone can help with my project. Tips and tricks are very welcome.

Thank you in advance.

P.H.D. Chan

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on December 10, 2012 at 7:29pm

Is it correct to assume that there will be voids and spaces or are the smaller volumes supposed to be in contact with each other in some way?

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on December 10, 2012 at 10:06pm

Here's something to start with perhaps.

Attachments:

9_RandomlyPlacedVolumes.gh, 11 KB

Permalink Reply by djordje on January 21, 2013 at 3:23pm

Zoom in to "Explode Tree" component and a plus and minus signs will appear. Click on any plus sign.

Permalink Reply by djordje on January 21, 2013 at 5:26pm

Chris inputted three values into the "S" input of "Random" component.
Just open the file he attached above.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on January 22, 2013 at 12:46am

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/box-clustering

Perhaps this feature in the latest Kangaroo is useful to you.
I'll try and post an example definition this evening

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