circle packing along sphere surface + merging difference with surf

Hello,

I'm very new to both Rhino and Grasshopper. I'm trying to use circle packing along the surface of a sphere to create "holes" in the sphere. I figured out the circle packing part and I'm able to bake them into a rhino file, but I'm not sure how to cut them out from the sphere. Note: My goal is to 3d print the resulting form, which will be a hollow sphere with holes in it.

I've attached the rhino and 3dm files to this thread if that helps. Thanks!

Attachments:

circles_on_surf_baked.3dm, 96 KB
circles_on_surface_example.gh, 18 KB

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Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on April 14, 2015 at 12:19am

Hi.

Is this what you are after?

Attachments:

circles_on_surface_example_re.3dm, 616 KB
circles_on_surface_example_re.gh, 16 KB

Permalink Reply by KevinS on April 14, 2015 at 8:35am

yes! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Off topic question about the circles distribution- is there a way for me to distribute the circles along the surface more evenly? Maybe Kangaroo isn't the right object for this?

Permalink Reply by Eli on January 18, 2017 at 12:14pm

It turns out to be quite challenging to subdivide a sphere in grasshopper without variation at the poles of the sphere. I have been after a more even distribution for some time. Any luck with this? Could you share?

Thank you!

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