circle packing dome

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Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on January 19, 2016 at 3:05pm

Yes.

Permalink Reply by leyla deniz on January 20, 2016 at 12:48am

Thanks to reply. Do you know how to do? I found some solutions from perivous discussions to make three fixed radius circle packing however, they are mostly randomly ordered. 

Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on January 20, 2016 at 11:09pm

It's usually helpful to post your files if you want some help, so sharing how you have your definition set up, and sketches of what you are trying to achieve is essential. For a problem like this, there are many approaches.

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on January 25, 2016 at 12:45am

Open circle packing is easy, derived from a Kangaroo MeshMachine boundary adaptive mesh:

I fear three fixed circle sizes is too restrictive, since it won't work, as each individual sized circle will produce completely flat hexagonal packing, then only a crude messy transition between each size, not being able to form a dome at all. It's not less impossible to create a dome with three fixed circle sizes than it is to make one with only one fixed circle size, which won't make a dome at all, just a beehive.

MeshMachine is just one way to get a gradiated mesh to afford some sort of packing guide. 

Ah, the top area is much more even with the Flip input of MeshMachine set to 0 instead of the default 1, here shown as baked MeshPipes:

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• Open Circle Packing On Dome.gh, 21 KB

Permalink Reply by leyla deniz on January 25, 2016 at 1:05am

Thanks a lot Willmore,

I think it will help a lot. I guess there are some plug-ins that I have to install to open the file. I will install and try to work on after that. Thanks again :)

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on January 25, 2016 at 2:04am

Kangaroo installation hassle thread:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/trying-really-hard-to-use...