Connecting points to form arc

Hello, I'm trying to determine the best way to connect points on a loft - to form nurbs curves. Stuck here. Any help is appreciated. Here is the file dome2.gh

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Permalink Reply by GAparicio on September 4, 2013 at 5:52pm

not sure what you mean by connect points to form nurbs curve. if you would like to create new curves from list of points than you can use the interpolated curve component and use flip matrix component to get the curves in the opposite direction. by using the interp crv component you can also specify the degree value. see attached image, hope this helps.

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Permalink Reply by zip7 on September 4, 2013 at 6:04pm

Thanks for the help! That will work, I'm still learning some of the terminology - so thanks for using your imagination a bit.

The following is the result I was going for, but I'm wondering if there's a cleaner way to achieve the results from this script?

Permalink Reply by GAparicio on September 4, 2013 at 6:13pm

no problem. i think the way you are generating the geometry seems to work just fine. if you need to get the vertical curvs than flipping the data matrix and setting the 'p' input to 'false' for the interp crv component will work. You can then use a list item component to extract the top and bottom horizontal crvs.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 5, 2013 at 2:49am

interpCrv2.png doesn't seem to actually contain any useful information, was it meant to?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 5, 2013 at 2:54am

Flip, then interpolate. You'll also want to clean your curve data as it contains a lot of null items due to scaling with factor zero.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 5, 2013 at 3:02am

Incidentally this is about as clean as I can get it. Least amount of data duplication (i.e., circles aren't made, then moved, then scaled, they are made exactly right the first time)