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Permalink Reply by Igor on October 16, 2012 at 4:25am

Yes there is. It's Kangaroo add-on.

Permalink Reply by Manuel Oliveira on October 16, 2012 at 6:04am

Thanks Igor

Can you please tell me the command please, or somewhere I can find information about kangaroo?

Permalink Reply by RWNB on October 16, 2012 at 6:50am

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on October 16, 2012 at 7:36am

It might also be useful to look at this paper :

http://mathdl.maa.org/images/upload_library/22/Robbins/Patterson1.pdf

http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/adventures-in-stacking.html

I think it should be possible to simulate something like this in Kangaroo, but it will require some abstraction (maybe something like the right hand image above), as there is currently no rigid body collision.

Accurate simulation of block stacking is actually a surprisingly difficult problem - game and animation engines often use some tricks like sleeping and shock propagation to make stacks which can rest stably, but collapse believably. However they do this usually at the cost of realistic structural behaviour.

Permalink Reply by Manuel Oliveira on October 16, 2012 at 11:40am

Thanks guys

Permalink Reply by Oclin Wang on July 15, 2013 at 7:17pm

Hi,

I have the same question to stack the bricks.

Can you explain a little bit how to do that?

I just start with kangaroo.

Thanks