Distrubte a set of Objects over a Surface

Hi I'm pretty new to Grasshopper and was wondering if anyone knows how to distribute an Object Ive made in grasshopper that uses Catenary curves over a surface?

The idea is basically distributing variations of the object over a surface.

Ive looked into using Circle packing as a method to do this but cant get any of the scripts Ive found to work with my object

Any help would be greatly appreciated

n.b Ive also attached the definition for the object I'm using

Attachments:

multiple arch.gh, 86 KB
arch.gh, 22 KB

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Permalink Reply by djordje on May 5, 2013 at 12:52pm

Hi Kyle,

Could you be a bit more precise on "an Object that uses Catenary curves over a surface"?

Where are the surface and object you mentioned?

By the way, I can see you are using the Giulio Piacentino's Catenary component.

Now there is a grasshopper native catenary component. Your definition could look a bit shorter, like this:

Attachments:

catenary.gh, 3 KB

Permalink Reply by Kyle D'Mello on May 5, 2013 at 3:52pm

Thanks for the definition, made the model alot easier to work with, also Ive attached the definition for the object in the first post but will upload the rhino model of the object...the surface isnt that important to me at this point so anything basic is fine

Attachments:

tessalate model.3dm, 100 KB

Permalink Reply by djordje on May 5, 2013 at 5:38pm

I still do not understand you. What are you trying to do with this .3dm model?

Morph it onto a surface?

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morph.gh, 5 KB

Permalink Reply by Jesus Galvez on May 5, 2013 at 5:58pm

Djorde congrats you already have +1000 discussions! :)

Permalink Reply by djordje on May 5, 2013 at 6:30pm

Gracias Jesus :)

Permalink Reply by Hrvoje Petrovic on May 6, 2013 at 2:17am

Congrats indeed...

Permalink Reply by Kyle D'Mello on May 5, 2013 at 6:47pm

that image is basically what im trying to do thanks

Permalink Reply by djordje on May 5, 2013 at 6:52pm

I would be very thankful if you could upload your .3dm files in the Rhino 4 format - in case some other problem emerges.
Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Kyle D'Mello on May 5, 2013 at 6:57pm

Thanks again for the help and am uploading the Rhino 4 model in this post

Attachments:

tessalate model1.3dm, 99 KB

Permalink Reply by Kyle D'Mello on May 5, 2013 at 10:12pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QefqhzIz_ak

sorry to bother you again, but my tutor wants me to look at circle packing so was wondering if there is a way to do what this video shows using the model above...been trying to replicate it but unfortunately haven't been successful

Permalink Reply by Kyle D'Mello on May 5, 2013 at 3:54pm

also cannot thank you enough for that definition

Permalink Reply by Jesus Galvez on May 5, 2013 at 5:56pm

Take a look into the Paneling Tools plugin for Grasshopper. Even if you are a novice with grasshopper it lets you do some pretty cool stuff quite easily.