DLA Problem with Pipes

Hey Guys,

I'm new in Grasshopper and i hope someone can help me to solve my problems.

I generated DLA lines and wanted to pipe all the lines with an attractor so it looks like roots, on the end the radius should be around 0 an at the beginning around 0.5.

I have two Problems:

1.How can i make the pipes flowing from one line into another without breaks?

2. How can i change the radii of the pipes with an attractor?

I hope someone can help me.

Thank alot

Andreas

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on November 13, 2012 at 11:57pm

metaballs

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on November 14, 2012 at 10:00am

this is not what I want. If the points are to close each oher the radi of the mateballs become bigger. then it looks like a ginger tuber. What I want is that it become thinner to the end, like tree roots and that the radi are depends on an attractor. I tried the metaballs plug in and with that I can´t develop a mesh or a brep depending on the curves.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on November 14, 2012 at 10:06am

custom meatballs work fine via attractors. They are not a plug in just standard components. You can then mesh the meatballs via mesh from points. Alternately you can dive into Millipede plug in for meshing.

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on November 14, 2012 at 10:41am

ok i will try it.

Doyou have some alternatives to metaballs?

Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on November 14, 2012 at 11:15am