Alternative to a Voronoi System?

Hi there well I'm working on a project which involves bubbles and so far architects have used the vovonoi system, But as a rule for this project i cant use the voronoi ... so does anyone know any other system that works with bubbles or with tensile structures?

I just really need the name so that i can start to research it, but if you have a definition of the thing it would be greatly apreciated.

Thanks.

Examples of Voronoi ... I cant use that system :p

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Permalink Reply by taz on February 12, 2011 at 5:42pm

Here's a start:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/bubbles-without-voronoi

Are you and Angela in the same class at ITESM?

Permalink Reply by Juan Alberto Galicia Osorno on February 12, 2011 at 6:13pm

Haha yeah , we are actually on the same team, But we haven't figured it out yet, we know what we want to do but we need a system, like voronoi, causewell weneedit to be unpredictable :p and without a math formula or system we just cant make it unpredictable cause then its jsut design.

And oh well, thanks anyways... and lol I loved taz :p

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on February 12, 2011 at 6:33pm

Hello There!

You can start with a sphere packing algorithm and then inflate the spheres so they push against each other and deform.

I've seen some sphere packing somewhere around here( perhaps using other polyedra from Geometry Gym) and I'm not sure if Kangaroo allows you to inflate spheres, one for Daniel!

Cheers

Evert

EDIT, it is actually possible, Have a look a This

Permalink Reply by Juan Alberto Galicia Osorno on February 12, 2011 at 6:44pm

Hi there :D and yeah thats a neat idea I´ll check it out :3

Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Juan Alberto Galicia Osorno on February 13, 2011 at 3:24pm

Hey there Evert... I was wondering where can I get Kangaroo? because I wanted to try it, but i just cant find it, for all i know its still unfinished.

But since you mentioned it to me :p , anyways thanks .

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on February 14, 2011 at 2:56am

Hi Juan Alberto,

Kangaroo has its own group here in the Grasshopper forum (home page bottom right) alternatively you can get it here

BTW, because soap bubbles are minimal surfaces, you could simulate something similar using a minimal surfaces approach, that is to say that they have mean curvature equal to zero, google it to find out more about it and also look for the double bubble problem.